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Entropy is a
scientific concept that is most
commonly ****ociated with a
state of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty. The term and the
concept are used...
- In
information theory, the
entropy of a
random variable is the
average level of "information", "surprise", or "uncertainty"
inherent to the variable's...
- In
information theory, the cross-
entropy between two
probability distributions p{\displaystyle p} and q{\displaystyle q} over the same
underlying set...
- The
entropy unit is a non-S.I. unit of
thermodynamic entropy,
usually denoted "e.u." or "eU" and
equal to one
calorie per
kelvin per mole, or 4.184 joules...
- process." The
second law of
thermodynamics establishes the
concept of
entropy as a
physical property of a
thermodynamic system. It
predicts whether processes...
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entropy is a
sociological theory that
evaluates social behaviours using a
method based on the
second law of thermodynamics. The
equivalent of
entropy...
- Rényi
entropy is a
quantity that
generalizes various notions of
entropy,
including Hartley entropy,
Shannon entropy,
collision entropy, and min-
entropy. The...
- statistics, the Kullback–Leibler (KL)
divergence (also
called relative entropy and I-divergence),
denoted DKL(P∥Q){\displaystyle D_{\text{KL}}(P\parallel...
- Look up
entropy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Entropy, in thermodynamics, is a
property originally introduced to
explain the part of the internal...
- constant, and in Planck's law of black-body
radiation and Boltzmann's
entropy formula, and is used in
calculating thermal noise in resistors. The Boltzmann...
