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INFORMATION THEORY
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
(computer science) a statistical theory dealing with the limits and efficiency of information processing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("information theory" is a kind of...):
scientific theory (a theory that explains scientific observations)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
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