Entropy of a distribution — entropy • tmfast

Entropy of a distribution

Usage

entropy(p, base = 2)

Arguments

p: Discrete probability distribution
base: Desired base for entropy, eg, 2 for bits

Value

Calculated Shannon entropy

Examples

entropy(c(0.5, 0.5))
#> [1] 1
entropy(c(0.9, 0.1))
#> [1] 0.4689956