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Estimation of Entropy, Mutual Information and Related Quantities
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Install from CRAN:
install.packages("entropy")

Install from Github:
library("remotes")
install_github("cran/entropy")

Install by package version:
library("remotes")
install_version("entropy", "1.3.2")



Attach the package and use:
library("entropy")
Maintained by
Korbinian Strimmer
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First Published: 2008-09-03
Latest Update: 2025-04-07
Description:
Implements various estimators of entropy for discrete random variables, including the shrinkage estimator by Hausser and Strimmer (2009), the maximum likelihood and the Millow-Madow estimator, various Bayesian estimators, and the Chao-Shen estimator. It also offers an R interface to the NSB estimator. Furthermore, the package provides functions for estimating the Kullback-Leibler divergence, the chi-squared divergence, mutual information, and the chi-squared divergence of independence. It also computes the G statistic and the chi-squared statistic and corresponding p-values. Furthermore, there are functions for discretizing continuous random variables.
How to cite:
Korbinian Strimmer (2008). entropy: Estimation of Entropy, Mutual Information and Related Quantities. R package version 1.3.2, https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/entropy. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.
Previous versions and publish date:
(2026-07-09 07:35), 1.0.0 (2008-09-03 09:52), 1.1.0 (2008-09-29 09:10), 1.1.1 (2008-10-26 19:29), 1.1.2 (2008-11-22 18:03), 1.1.3 (2009-01-09 12:43), 1.1.4 (2009-08-08 14:37), 1.1.5 (2010-04-11 15:40), 1.1.6 (2011-03-21 07:47), 1.1.7 (2012-01-20 07:49), 1.1.8 (2013-03-25 18:24), 1.1.9 (2013-06-22 08:46), 1.2.0 (2013-07-16 17:09), 1.2.1 (2014-11-14 08:16), 1.3.0 (2021-04-25 15:20), 1.3.1 (2021-10-02 20:00)
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