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, 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
.
Jean Hausser and Korbinian Strimmer (http://strimmerlab.org/)
See website: http://strimmerlab.org/software/entropy/