Structural modelling using a simple information measure

1 January 1980

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Systems Science

Vol. 11 (6) , 721-730
https://doi.org/10.1080/00207728008967049

Abstract

The structure of a system of N variables is defined to be the set of N dependency relationships giving, for each variable, the set of other variables upon which it is statistically dependent. Because statistical dependence is indicated by the transmission measure of information theory, this set can be found by finding the smallest subset of variables for which T (subset : variable) is a maximum. Sampling considerations of this method are discussed, and the results of 21 experiments with it are given. The results are compatible with those of other structural modelling methods.

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