conditional entropy
noun1
Computing, Engineering, Information theory, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The portion of a random variable's own Shannon entropy which is independent from another, given, random variable.
- 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.
- Related terms
- conditional probability