Title | Network information and connected correlations. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2003 |
Authors | Schneidman, E, Still, S, Berry, MJ, Bialek, W |
Journal | Phys Rev Lett |
Volume | 91 |
Issue | 23 |
Pagination | 238701 |
Date Published | 2003 Dec 5 |
Keywords | Information Services, Models, Genetic, Models, Neurological, Models, Theoretical |
Abstract | Entropy and information provide natural measures of correlation among elements in a network. We construct here the information theoretic analog of connected correlation functions: irreducible N-point correlation is measured by a decrease in entropy for the joint distribution of N variables relative to the maximum entropy allowed by all the observed N-1 variable distributions. We calculate the "connected information" terms for several examples and show that it also enables the decomposition of the information that is carried by a population of elements about an outside source. |
Alternate Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. |