ConceptConditional Entropy
Conditional Entropy
In information theory, a quantity representing the remaining uncertainty of one random variable given knowledge of another, denoted H(Y|X).
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Conditional entropy H(Y|X) represents the remaining uncertainty of Y given X, and the relationship between entropy and mutual information, H(Y) = I(X;Y) + H(Y|X), is the key identity for decomposing transient and durable contributions.
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