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Here is my web site; http://Www.hostgator1centcoupon.info/ (support.file1.com) Pointwise mutual information (PMI) , or point mutual information, is a measure of association used in information theory and statistics.

Definition

The PMI of a pair of outcomes x and y belonging to discrete random variables X and Y quantifies the discrepancy between the probability of their coincidence given their joint distribution and their individual distributions, assuming independence. Mathematically:

$\mathrm{pmi}(x;y)\equiv \log \frac{p(x,y)}{p(x)p(y)}=\log \frac{p(x|y)}{p(x)}=\log \frac{p(y|x)}{p(y)}.$

The mutual information (MI) of the random variables X and Y is the expected value of the PMI over all possible outcomes (with respect to the joint distribution $p(x,y)$).

The measure is symmetric ($\mathrm{pmi}(x;y)=\mathrm{pmi}(y;x)$). It can take positive or negative values, but is zero if X and Y are independent. PMI maximizes when X and Y are perfectly associated, yielding the following bounds:

$-\mathrm{\infty }\le \mathrm{pmi}(x;y)\le \min [-\log p(x),-\log p(y)].$

Finally, $\mathrm{pmi}(x;y)$ will increase if $p(x|y)$ is fixed but $p(x)$decreases.

Here is an example to illustrate:

x	y	p(x, y)
0	0	0.1
0	1	0.7
1	0	0.15
1	1	0.05

Using this table we can marginalize to get the following additional table for the individual distributions:

	p(x)	p(y)
0	.8	0.25
1	.2	0.75

With this example, we can compute four values for $pmi(x;y)$. Using base-2 logarithms:

pmi(x=0;y=0)	−1
pmi(x=0;y=1)	0.222392421
pmi(x=1;y=0)	1.584962501
pmi(x=1;y=1)	−1.584962501

(For reference, the mutual information $\mathrm{I}(X;Y)$ would then be 0.214170945)

Similarities to mutual information

Pointwise Mutual Information has many of the same relationships as the mutual information. In particular,

$\begin{array}{rlr}\mathrm{pmi}(x;y)& =& h(x)+h(y)-h(x,y)\\ & =& h(x)-h(x|y)\\ & =& h(y)-h(y|x)\end{array}$

Where $h(x)$ is the self-information, or $-{\log }_{2}p(X=x)$.

Normalized pointwise mutual information (npmi)

Pointwise mutual information can be normalized between [-1,+1] resulting in -1 (in the limit) for never occurring together, 0 for independence, and +1 for complete co-occurrence.

$\mathrm{npmi}(x;y)=\frac{\mathrm{pmi}(x;y)}{-\log [p(x,y)]}$

Chain-rule for pmi

Pointwise mutual information follows the chain rule, that is,

$\mathrm{pmi}(x;yz)=\mathrm{pmi}(x;y)+\mathrm{pmi}(x;z|y)$

This is easily proven by:

$\begin{array}{rl}\mathrm{pmi}(x;y)+\mathrm{pmi}(x;z|y)& =\log \frac{p(x,y)}{p(x)p(y)}+\log \frac{p(x,z|y)}{p(x|y)p(z|y)}\\ & =\log \left[\frac{p(x,y)}{p(x)p(y)}\frac{p(x,z|y)}{p(x|y)p(z|y)}\right]\\ & =\log \frac{p(x|y)p(y)p(x,z|y)}{p(x)p(y)p(x|y)p(z|y)}\\ & =\log \frac{p(x,yz)}{p(x)p(yz)}\\ & =\mathrm{pmi}(x;yz)\end{array}$

References

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External links

• Demo at Rensselaer MSR Server (PMI values normalized to be between 0 and 1)