entropy-package {entropy}R Documentation

The entropy Package

Description

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, with application to nonlinear gene association networks. 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.

Author(s)

Jean Hausser and Korbinian Strimmer (http://strimmerlab.org/)

References

See website: http://strimmerlab.org/software/entropy/

See Also

entropy


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