Talk:Average information

Some weeks ago I wrote an article with the title “mean information”. The idea was to point to the fact that the information entropy mathematically is a mean value of the negative logarithms of a set of probabilities, [ p(i), i = 1, 2, …. N], constituting a discrete probability density function. Each log[p(i)] represents the “information” achieved when an event occurred with probability p(i) in accordance with the Shannon theory of information. I am not sorry for the removal of the article, because I realized that “information” in this sense is equivalent to information content. Some days ago someone changed information content to self-information. Now, if – in some text – I would like to point to the mean value property of information entropy, would it be possible to use the concept average information (pointing to information entropy) instead of average information content or average self-information, which seem rather clumsy in my opinion? In fact, average information has already been used in some places. Why would it not be possible to have it as a separate look up word?--Kjells 08:25, 25 April 2007 (UTC)