entropy — SciPy v1.15.3 Manual (original) (raw)

scipy.stats.rv_continuous.

rv_continuous.entropy(*args, **kwds)[source]#

Differential entropy of the RV.

Parameters:

arg1, arg2, arg3,…array_like

The shape parameter(s) for the distribution (see docstring of the instance object for more information).

locarray_like, optional

Location parameter (default=0).

scalearray_like, optional (continuous distributions only).

Scale parameter (default=1).

Notes

Entropy is defined base e:

import numpy as np from scipy.stats._distn_infrastructure import rv_discrete drv = rv_discrete(values=((0, 1), (0.5, 0.5))) np.allclose(drv.entropy(), np.log(2.0)) True