information entropy

English

Noun

information entropy (uncountable)

1. (information theory) A measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable; a measure of the average information content one is missing when one does not know the value of the random variable (usually in units such as bits); the amount of information (measured in, say, bits) contained per average instance of a character in a stream of characters.

Synonyms

• Shannon entropy

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 信息熵 (xìnxī shāng), 資訊熵／资讯熵 (zīxùn shāng)

See also

• variety