How the Concept of Information as Average Number of "Yes"-"No" Questions (Bits) Can Be Extended to Intervals, P-Boxes, and More General Uncertainty

Authors

Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Gang Xiang
Scott Ferson

Publication Date

4-2005

Comments

UTEP-CS-05-17.

Published in Proceedings of the 24th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2005, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 22-25, 2005, pp. 80-85.

Abstract

We explain how the concept of information as average number of "yes"-"no" questions (bits) can be extended to intervals, p-boxes, and more general uncertainty.