shannonEntropy {SCCI}R Documentation

Shannon Entropy

Description

Calculates the Shannon entropy over data of a discrete random variable X.

Usage

shannonEntropy(x)

Arguments

x

A discrete vector.

Examples

set.seed(1)
x = round((runif(1000, min=0, max=5)))
shannonEntropy(x=x)	## 2.522265

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