Module g_entropy

This returns the entropy of a probability distribution that produced a given sample.

Functions

entropy_probs(p)
Entropy of a probability distribution.

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entropy_vec(p, N=None, F=1.0, Clip=0.01)
Entropy of a frequency distribution p.

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Variables
	__package__ = `'gmisclib'`

Imports: numpy, mcmc, mcmc_helper, gpkavg, math, kl_dist

Function Details

Entropy of a frequency distribution p. Here, we assume that p is counts derived from multinomial distributed data; they are not normalized to one.