"information entropy" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-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. Wikipedia link: information entropy Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Information theory, Statistics Synonyms: Shannon entropy Related terms: variety Translations (Translations): 信息熵 (xìnxī shāng) (Chinese Mandarin), 資訊熵 (Chinese Mandarin), 资讯熵 (zīxùn shāng) (Chinese Mandarin)
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