Estimation of Entropy and Related Quantities

Contains methods for the estimation of Shannon's entropy, variants of Renyi's entropy, mutual information, Kullback-Leibler divergence, and generalized Simpson's indices. The estimators used have a bias that decays exponentially fast.


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install.packages("EntropyEstimation")

1.2.1 by Michael Grabchak, 2 years ago


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/EntropyEstimation


Authors: Lijuan Cao [aut] , Michael Grabchak [aut, cre]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL (>= 3) license



Imported by CASMI, divent, entropart.


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