Browsing by Subject "information entropy"

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    Using Information Entropy to Monitor Chief Complaint Characteristics and Quality
    (2013) Grannis, Shaun J; Dixon, Brian E.; Xia, Yuni; Wu, Jianmin
    As we enter the 'big medical data' era, a new core competency is to continuously monitor quality of data collected from electronic sources, including population surveillance data sources. We describe how entropy, a fundamental information measure, can help monitor the characteristics of chief complaints in an operational surveillance system.