This article defines a quantized entropy and develops Bayes estimates and inference for the entropy and a Kullback-Leibler information index of the model fit. We use a Dirichlet process prior for the unknown data-generating distribution with a maximum entropy candidate model as the expected...

Which component is most important for a system's survival? We answer this question by ranking the information relationship between a system and its components. The mutual information (M) measures dependence between the operational states of the system and a component for a mission time as well...