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Descriptor English: Information Theory
Descriptor Spanish: Teoría de la Información
Descriptor teoría de la información
Scope note: Estudio interdisciplinario que se ocupa de la transmisión de mensajes o señales, o de la comunicación de la información. La teoría de la información no lidia directamente con el significado o contenido, sino con las representaciones físicas que tienen significado o contenido. Se imbrica considerablemente con la teoría de la comunicación y con la CIBERNÉTICA.
Descriptor Portuguese: Teoria da Informação
Descriptor French: Théorie de l'information
Entry term(s): Information Theories
Theories, Information
Theory, Information
Tree number(s): L01.488
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007257
Scope note: An interdisciplinary study dealing with the transmission of messages or signals, or the communication of information. Information theory does not directly deal with meaning or content, but with physical representations that have meaning or content. It overlaps considerably with communication theory and CYBERNETICS.
Allowable Qualifiers: HI history
Public MeSH Note: 65
History Note: 65(64)
Related: Operations Research MeSH
DeCS ID: 7434
Unique ID: D007257
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Date Established: 1965/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2010/06/25
Information Theory - Preferred
Concept UI M0011324
Scope note An interdisciplinary study dealing with the transmission of messages or signals, or the communication of information. Information theory does not directly deal with meaning or content, but with physical representations that have meaning or content. It overlaps considerably with communication theory and CYBERNETICS.
Preferred term Information Theory
Entry term(s) Information Theories
Theories, Information
Theory, Information



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