/******************************************************************************* ** Entropy.h ** Part of the mutual information toolbox ** ** Contains functions to calculate the entropy of a single variable H(X), ** the joint entropy of two variables H(X,Y), and the conditional entropy ** H(X|Y) ** ** Author: Adam Pocock ** Created 19/2/2010 ** ** Copyright 2010 Adam Pocock, The University Of Manchester ** www.cs.manchester.ac.uk ** ** This file is part of MIToolbox. ** ** MIToolbox is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify ** it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by ** the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or ** (at your option) any later version. ** ** MIToolbox is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ** but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ** MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ** GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. ** ** You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License ** along with MIToolbox. If not, see . ** *******************************************************************************/ #ifndef __Entropy_H #define __Entropy_H #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif /******************************************************************************* ** calculateEntropy returns the entropy in log base 2 of dataVector ** H(X) ** ** length(dataVector) == vectorLength otherwise there ** will be a segmentation fault *******************************************************************************/ double calculateEntropy(double *dataVector, int vectorLength); /******************************************************************************* ** calculateJointEntropy returns the entropy in log base 2 of the joint ** variable of firstVector and secondVector H(XY) ** ** length(firstVector) == length(secondVector) == vectorLength otherwise there ** will be a segmentation fault *******************************************************************************/ double calculateJointEntropy(double *firstVector, double *secondVector, int vectorLength); /******************************************************************************* ** calculateConditionalEntropy returns the entropy in log base 2 of dataVector ** conditioned on conditionVector, H(X|Y) ** ** length(dataVector) == length(conditionVector) == vectorLength otherwise there ** will be a segmentation fault *******************************************************************************/ double calculateConditionalEntropy(double *dataVector, double *conditionVector, int vectorLength); #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif #endif