Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

conditional entropy

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English

Syllables: con-di-tion-al en-tropy
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The portion of a random variable's own Shannon entropy which is independent from another, given, random variable.

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

conditional entropies (plural)

Phrases

conditional probability

Frequently Paired Words

conditional probability

Questions

What does conditional entropy mean?: The portion of a random variable's own Shannon entropy which is independent from another, given, random variable.

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