information entropy

== English == === Noun === information entropy (uncountable) (information theory) A measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable; a measure of the average information content one is missing when one does not know the value of the random variable (usually in units such as bits); the amount of information (measured in, say, bits) contained per average instance of a character in a stream of characters. ==== Synonyms ==== Shannon entropy ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== variety