conditional entropy

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conditional entropy (plural conditional entropies)

  1. (information theory) The portion of a random variable's own Shannon entropy which is independent from another, given, random variable.
    The conditional entropy of random variable given (i.e., conditioned by ), denoted as , is equal to where is the mutual information between and .
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