EVIDENCE FOR THE UNIFORM RADIATION LIFE SHORTENING PREDICTED BY INFORMATION THEORY (thesis)

Information theory was developed by electrical engineers to provide the most efficient way of expressing a message for use in transmission systems. The mathematics of information theory is discussed. Yockey demonstrated that information entropy, conditional entropy, read-off error, and other information theoretical ideas have counterparts in genetic systems. Information theory was applied in an analysis of data on radioinduced life shortening. (C.H.)