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A probability provides a quantitative description of the likely occurrence of a particular event.
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Shannon Information | Understanding from a Microstate Perspective
,t}p_i \log_2 p_i =- (0.5 \log_2 0.5 + 0.5 \log_2 0.5) = 1\;\mathrm{bits}$$
or because each microstate is equally probable $H(X) = \log_2 2 = 1 \;\mathrm{bits}$
For the biased coin where heads has a probability …
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Conflicting Definition of Information in Statistics | Fisher Vs Shannon
Shannon information is related to the probability distribution of possible outcomes. … In your coin example there is little information from a probability distribution in the extreme cases, $P(X = 0)$ and $P(X = 1)$. …
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Low probability of a multinomial for expected values
There are a couple reasons off of the top of my head I can think of why the probability is significantly smaller than your intuition:
Playing fast and loose with rounding. …
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