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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   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. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From minimum entropy.

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