[CST-2] Fano's inequality

[Mike Pinna]

On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Peter Taylor wrote:
> p19 of InfoTh notes.  Pe >= ((H(X|Y) - 1) / |A|) where A is the number of
> possible outcomes.  Does this assume X and Y have the same set of outcomes,
> or is it the number of possible outcomes of X?

Surely we don't care how many possible outcomes there are for Y, given
that we know what value it has taken?

Mike

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