entropy-package {entropy} | R Documentation |
This package implements various estimators of the Shannon entropy. Most estimators in this package can be applied in "small n, large p" situations, i.e. when there are many more bins than counts.
The main function of this package is entropy
, which provides
a unified interface to various entropy estimators.
If you use this package please cite: Jean Hausser and Korbinian Strimmer. 2008. Entropy inference and the James-Stein estimator. See http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3579 for publication details.
This paper contains a detailed statistical comparison of the estimators available
in this package. It also describes the shrinkage entropy estimator entropy.shrink
.
Jean Hausser and Korbinian Strimmer (http://strimmerlab.org/)
See website: http://strimmerlab.org/software/entropy/