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Rényi entropy

Rényi entropy noun: a quantity that generalizes various notions of entropy, including Hartley entropy, Shannon entropy, collision entropy, and min-entropy.

Noun

Rényi entropy (countable and uncountable, plural Rényi entropies)

  1. A quantity that generalizes various notions of entropy, including Hartley entropy, Shannon entropy, collision entropy, and min-entropy.

Forms of Rényi entropy

pluralRényi entropies

Origin of Rényi entropy

Named after Alfréd Rényi (1921–1970), Hungarian mathematician.

Questions about Rényi entropy

What does Rényi entropy mean?
Rényi entropy means a quantity that generalizes various notions of entropy, including Hartley entropy, Shannon entropy, collision entropy, and min-entropy.
What part of speech is Rényi entropy?
Rényi entropy is a noun.
What is the plural of Rényi entropy?
The plural of Rényi entropy is Rényi entropies.

Words near Rényi entropy in the dictionary

  1. Régua
  2. Rémilly
  3. rémoulade
  4. rémoulades
  5. Rényi entropies
  6. Rényi entropy
  7. répertoire
  8. répertoires
  9. réseau
  10. réseaus
  11. réseaux

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