conditional entropy
conditional entropy · conditional entropies
The portion of a random variable's own Shannon entropy which is independent from…The portion of a random variable's own Shannon entropy which is independent from another, given, random variable.
Meaning
1 sensesThe 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.
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plural: conditional entropies| Singular | conditional entropy |
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