Quantifying information content in survey data by entropy

Entropy

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 161-163

  Dahl, Fredrik A ^a   Østerås, Nina ^b  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b DIAKONHJEMMET HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Data; Entropy; Information; Questionnaire; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953496239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e12020161     Document Type: Letter

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