English to Spanish Science Science (general)

AMIGOS, EN ESTE CONTEXTO 'background measures' significá 'mediciones de fondo'?

The second scoring variable is information. Loosely, the information in a distribution is the degree to which the distribution is concentrated. Information cannot be measured absolutely, but only with respect to a background measure.

Measuring information requires associating a density with each quantile assessment of each expert. To do this, we use the unique density that complies with the experts' quantiles and is minimally informative with respect to the background measure.