期刊名称:International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0161-1712
电子版ISSN:1687-0425
出版年度:2005
卷号:2005
DOI:10.1155/IJMMS.2005.2847
出版社:Hindawi Publishing Corporation
摘要:We have presented a new axiomatic derivation of Shannon entropy for a discrete probability distribution on the basis of the postulates of additivity and concavity of the entropy function. We have then modified Shannon entropy to take account of observational uncertainty.The modified entropy reduces, in the limiting case, to the form of Shannon differential entropy. As an application, we have derived the expression for classical entropy of statistical mechanics from the quantized form of the entropy.