entropy

Estimation of Entropy, Mutual Information and Related Quantities

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Implements various estimators of entropy for discrete random variables, including the shrinkage estimator by Hausser and Strimmer (2009), the maximum likelihood and the Millow-Madow estimator, various Bayesian estimators, and the Chao-Shen estimator. It also offers an R interface to the NSB estimator. Furthermore, the package provides functions for estimating the Kullback-Leibler divergence, the chi-squared divergence, mutual information, and the chi-squared divergence of independence. It also computes the G statistic and the chi-squared statistic and corresponding p-values. Furthermore, there are functions for discretizing continuous random variables.


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Last 30 days

This package has been downloaded 6,762 times in the last 30 days. That's a lot of interest! Someone might even write a blog post about it. The following heatmap shows the distribution of downloads per day. Yesterday, it was downloaded 254 times.

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Last 365 days

This package has been downloaded 67,846 times in the last 365 days. This work is reaching a lot of screens. A significant achievement indeed! The day with the most downloads was Sep 05, 2024 with 407 downloads.

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