Reminders of old news.
In defense of Stan: The use of the term "variety" as a generic stand-in for
Shannon's concept of signal entropy traces to W. Ross Ashby, in his
excellent effort to demystify information theory and cybernetics for the
nontechnical reader. It is appropriate, then, to assume th
Reacting to my:
S: Well, I have generalized the Shannon concept of information carrying
capacity under 'variety'... {variety {information carrying capacity}}.
This allows the concept to operate quite generally in evolutionary and
ecological discourses. Information, then, if you like, is what is
Dear Loet,
Variance is a parameter which can be computed for the distribution of
any real random variable having a finite moment of order 2.
It includes Normal, Binomial, Poisson, Exponential, any distribution
with bounded support, etc.
However, some statistical tests about the variance assume norm
Dear Stan,
I sometimes become confused by your word usage.
S: Well, I have generalized the Shannon concept of information carrying
capacity under 'variety'... {variety {information carrying capacity}}. This
allows the concept to operate quite generally in evolutionary and ecological
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