calculateContinuousEntropy_PDF: calculate differential entropy of a continuous value (X)...

View source: R/tidyContinuousEntropy.R

calculateContinuousEntropy_PDFR Documentation

calculate differential entropy of a continuous value (X) using a probability function approach:

Description

calculate differential entropy of a continuous value (X) using a probability function approach:

Usage

calculateContinuousEntropy_PDF(
  df,
  continuousVar,
  probabilityMethod = "SGolay",
  ...
)

Arguments

df

- may be grouped, in which case the grouping is interpreted as different types of discrete variable

continuousVar

- the column of the continuous value (Y)

probabilityMethod

- the method of calculating a PDF - valid options are "SGolay", "Kernel"

...

- passed onto probabilitiesFromContinuous

Value

a dataframe containing the disctinct values of the groups of df, and for each group an entropy value (H). If df was not grouped this will be a single entry


terminological/tidy-info-stats documentation built on Nov. 19, 2022, 11:23 p.m.