givens/calculate-entropy

Calculate Entropy in R

Calculate-Entropy

Calculate Entropy in R

Functions

• condh - Calculates conditional entropy from feature vectors

• condition - Produces a conditional probability from a joint one

• condmi - Calculates conditional mutual information from data vectors

• discretize - Discretize by equal width or equal frequency

• entropy - Calculates joint entropy from a joint probability table

• h - Calculates joint entropy from feature vectors

• marginalize - Calculates marginal probability from a joint probability

• mi - Calculates mutual information from feature vectors

• prob - Calculates joint probability

Example

x = c(1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0)
y = c(1,1,0,0,1,1,0,0)
z = c(1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0)

h(x) # H(x) = 1
h(x,y) # H(x,y) = 2
h(x,y,z) # H(x,y,z) = 3
condh(x,y) # H(x|y) = 1
mi(x,y) # I(x;y) = 0
condmi(x,y,z) # I(x;y|z) = 0