Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2007 Dec 27;8:488. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-8-488

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

Copyright © 2007 Mihalek et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

PMC Copyright notice

Shannon and joint entropies. Comparison between Shannon and joint entropies, in the hypothetical case of a set of 30 elements of type A or B. Red line: joint entropy, evaluated according to Eq. 4. Green line: Shannon entropy (Eq. 3).