Rényi entropy

noun

Rényi entropy

noun

Etymology Named after Alfréd Rényi (1921–1970), Hungarian mathematician.

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Computing, Engineering, Information theory, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A quantity that generalizes various notions of entropy, including Hartley entropy, Shannon entropy, collision entropy, and min-entropy.

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