Search Results - subject:"Shannon’s Entropy"

Water Resource Vulnerability Characteristics by District’s Population Size in a Changing Climate Using Subjective and Objective Weights

Chung, Eun-Sung; Won, Kwangjae; Kim, Yeonjoo; Lee, Hosun - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 9, pp. 6141-6157

each indicator is determined based on both the Delphi technique and Shannon’s entropy, which are employed to reduce the … uncertainty in the process of determining the weights. The Delphi technique reflects expert opinions, and Shannon’s entropy …

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Product benchmarking in the air cargo industry : Non-parametric measurement of an aircraft value for money

lo Storto, Corrado - In: Benchmarking: An International Journal 24 (2017) 4, pp. 857-881

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an objective decision-making framework and conduct a benchmarking study in the air cargo industry. Design/methodology/approach The decision-making framework and benchmarking methodology evaluates the aircraft value for money (VfM) as a...

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Urban Sprawl Monitoring using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques of the City Jaipur, India

Sisodia, Pushpendra Singh; Tiwari, Vivekananda; Dahiya, … - In: International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) 7 (2016) 3, pp. 93-104

The rapid increase in population of India forced people to migrate from rural areas and small towns to metropolitan cities for better employment, education, and, good lifestyle. Major cities of India were industrialized and required more work force in metropolitan cities, leading to...

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Development and application of Shannon’s entropy integrated information value model for landslide susceptibility assessment and zonation in Sikkim Himalayas in India

Sharma, L.; Patel, Nilanchal; Ghose, M.; Debnath, P. - In: Natural Hazards 75 (2015) 2, pp. 1555-1576

this study, an attempt has been made to integrate the concept of Shannon’s entropy with the information value … integration of Shannon’s entropy by comparing the results with the landslide susceptibility determined from the information value … polygon, the Shannon’s entropy value of the individual parameters was multiplied with the summation of the landslide …

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Generalized maximum entropy (GME) estimator: formulation and a monte carlo study

Eruygur, H. Ozan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

developed by Shannon. A decade after in 1957, Jaynes formulated Shannon’s entropy as a method for estimation and inference …

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Maximization of statistical heterogeneity: From Shannon’s entropy to Gini’s index

Eliazar, Iddo; Sokolov, Igor M. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389 (2010) 16, pp. 3023-3038

Physics and Information Theory commonly use Shannon’s entropy which measures the randomness of probability laws, whereas …

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Eliciting vague but proper maximal entropy priors in Bayesian experiments

Bousquet, Nicolas - In: Statistical Papers 51 (2010) 3, pp. 613-628

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