Information Decomposition of Target Effects from Multi-Source Interactions

• Main Author: Michael Wibral (Ed.) (auth)
• Other Authors: Joseph Lizier (Ed.) (auth), Nils Bertschinger (Ed.) (auth), Juergen Jost (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: Shannon information; synergy; shared information transfer entropy; information theory; mutual information; redundancy; information decomposition
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Using Shannon information theory to analyse the contributions from two source variables to a target, for example, we can measure the information held by one source about the target, the information held by the other source about the target, and the information held by those sources together about th...