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conditional entropies

conditional entropies is the plural of conditional entropy.

Meaning of conditional entropy

Noun

conditional entropy (plural conditional entropies)

  1. The portion of a random variable's own Shannon entropy which is independent from another, given, random variable.
    • The conditional entropy of random variable Y given X (i.e., conditioned by X), denoted as H(Y#124;X), is equal to H(Y)-I(Y#59;X) where I(Y#59;X) is the mutual information between Y and X.

Questions about conditional entropies

What is conditional entropies the plural of?
Conditional entropies is the plural of conditional entropy.

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