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Shannon entropy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

information entropy

Word forms

Shannon entropy Shannon entropies

Etymology

Named after Claude Shannon, the "father of information theory".

Related words

joint entropy conditional entropy Shannon information mutual information

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