mutual information
/ˌmjuːtʃuəl ˌɪnfərˈmeɪʃən/
the amount of information one variable contains about another
mutual information in a sentence
“The high mutual information between the signals suggested a common source.”
Origin of mutual information
Technical term from information theory
Related Words
entropy
a measure of uncertainty or randomness in information; the average information content
redundancy
the use of more information than necessary; repetition that aids error correction
compression
reducing the size of data by eliminating redundancy
encoding
converting information from one form to another for transmission or storage
decoding
extracting the original information from an encoded form
signal-to-noise ratio
the proportion of meaningful information to irrelevant interference