dit: a Python package for discrete information theory
Ryan G. James, Christopher J. Ellison, James P. Crutchfield · The Journal of Open Source Software · 2018
dit("Dit: A Python Package for Discrete Information Theory.Available at: Https://Github.com/Dit/Dit"n.d.) is a Python package for the study of discrete information theory.Information theory is a mathematical framework for the study of quantifying, compressing, and communicating random variables (Cover and Thomas 2006) (MacKay 2003)(Yeung 2008).More recently, information theory has been utilized within the physical and social sciences to quantify how different components of a system interact.dit is primarily concerned with this aspect of the theory.