min-entropy

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Etymology[edit]

From minimum entropy.

Noun[edit]

min-entropy (countable and uncountable, plural min-entropies)

  1. (information theory) The smallest of the Rényi family of entropies, corresponding to the most conservative way of measuring the unpredictability of a set of outcomes, as the negative logarithm of the probability of the most likely outcome.