Information Entropy due to Multi-level Digitisation

P. Attard

Ian Wark Research Institute, University of South Australia, The Levels, SA 5095, Australia.

Mol. Phys. 95, 439-447 (1998)

Abstract
A generalised Markov superposition approximation is used for the higher order correlation functions in a systematic expansion for the entropy. The results are applicable to certain one dimensional problems, such as the information content of time-series or signals, or possibly also to polymer adsorption at a wall. The case of digitisation of the signal into many levels is treated in detail, and the dependence of the information content on sampling and digitisation is analysed.

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