Entropy, Relative Entropy, Mutual Information

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Definitions

Entropy

  • a measure of the uncertainty of a random variable
  • The entropy of a random variable is a measure of the uncertainty of the random variable
    • it is a measure of the amount of information required on the average to describe the random variable