maxent_toolbox

Maximum Entropy toolbox for MATLAB

maxent.getEntropy

Description

Returns the empirical entropy for a dataset or computes the entropy for a model. This function only computes the entropy for small models (because it does so exhaustively), in order to obtain an approximation of the entropy of large distributions use the wangLandau function.

Usage

entropy = maxent.getEntropy(model)

entropy = maxent.getEntropy(samples)

Arguments

Mandatory arguments

model - Maximum entropy model as returned by the trainModel function.
samples - Set of samples, in the format (ncells x nsamples).

Output

entropy - entropy in bits.