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Starting from the conditional probability statistical model, which was deduced from the correlation, the Shannon entropy, the joint entropy, and the conditional entropy are calculated. Time-delayed mutual information and transfer entropy have also been calculated analytically here for binary events: by including correlations between consecutive earthquake events, and between consecutive earthquakes and electron bursts. These quantities have been evaluated for the complex dynamical system of lithosphere-ionosphere; although the expressions calculated by probabilities resulted in being valid for each pair of binary events. Peaks occurred for the same time delay as in the correlations, \u0394t = 1.5\u20133.5 h, and as well as for a new time delay, \u0394t = \u221258.5\u2013\u221256.5 h, for the transfer entropy; this last is linked to EQ self-correlations from the analysis. 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