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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 3.
Published in final edited form as: Oikos. 2010 Feb;119(2):219–230. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17781.x

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Two different measures of the information in a cue are commonly used. (A) The mutual information between the cue and the environment measures the reduction in environmental uncertainty once the cue has been observed. (B) The decision-theoretic value of information measures the change in expected fitness that is made possible by using the cue.