relen-package: Compute Relative Entropy

Description Details Author(s) References Examples

Description

This function computes the relative entropy (H) as an index for qualitative variation of a factor. Any factor can be used as argument. H ist computed as follows: H = (-1/ln(k))*sum(hj*ln(hj))

Details

Package: relen
Type: Package
Version: 1.0.1
Date: 2015-11-04
License: GPL-2

relen(x)

Author(s)

Soeren Braehmer <soeren.braehmer@uni-bielefeld.de>

References

Eid, M., Gollwitzer, M. & Schmitt, M. (2013). Statistik und Forschungsmethoden (3 korr.Auflage) Weinheim: Beltz. p105ff

Examples

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relen(iris$Species)

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