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rényi entropy

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
reny-i en-tropy
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A quantity that generalizes various notions of entropy, including Hartley entropy, Shannon entropy, collision entropy, and min-entropy.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Named after Alfréd Rényi (1921–1970), Hungarian mathematician.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Rényi entropies (plural)

Questions

What does rényi entropy mean?
A quantity that generalizes various notions of entropy, including Hartley entropy, Shannon entropy, collision entropy, and min-entropy.
Where does rényi entropy come from?
Named after Alfréd Rényi (1921–1970), Hungarian mathematician.

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