[Insight-users] Mattes Information Metric

[Cory Quammen]

> I dont have a lot of experience with mutual information metrics - how
> much of a difference is their between Mattes and a striaght up mutual
> information metric where I measure the H(A) + H(B) - H (AB). I
> understand each seperately but I have not convinced myself reading the
> papers how there differences have advantages/disadvatages?

Ken,

I'm afraid I'm not terribly familiar with the specifics of the two
different versions of the mutual information metrics.

Perhaps someone else on the list can respond.

Cory

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Cory Quammen
Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy and Manipulation (CISMM)
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~cquammen