entropy of a partition

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entropy of a partition [′en·trə·pē əv ə pär′tish·ən]

(mathematics)

If ξ is a finite partition of a probability space, the entropy of ξ is the negative of the sum of the products of the probabilities of elements in ξ with the logarithm of the probability of the element.

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