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conditional entropy

conditional entropy noun: the portion of a random variable's own Shannon entropy which is independent from another, given, random variable.

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.

Forms of conditional entropy

pluralconditional entropies

Questions about conditional entropy

What does conditional entropy mean?
Conditional entropy means the portion of a random variable's own Shannon entropy which is independent from another, given, random variable.
What part of speech is conditional entropy?
Conditional entropy is a noun.
What is the plural of conditional entropy?
The plural of conditional entropy is conditional entropies.

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