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information entropy en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable; a measure of the average information content one is missing when one does not know the value of the random variable (usually in units such as bits); the amount of information (measured in, say, bits) contained per average instance of a character in a stream of characters.

Relateds

variety

Synonyms

Shannon entropy

Translations (3)

cmn 資訊熵 /资讯熵 (Translations) · cmn 信息熵 (Translations) · pl entropia (Translations)