Timeline for Variance of a distribution of multi-level categorical data
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| Jun 30, 2016 at 16:14 | history | edited | gung - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 30, 2016 at 16:06 | vote | accept | Eric Staner | ||
| Jun 30, 2016 at 7:21 | comment | added | Nick Cox | Entropy as you define it is bounded for $S$ categories by $\log_2 S$. Clearly $S$ can grow as large as one likes but in most problems of this kind it's small or moderate and entropy is thus finite. | |
| Jun 29, 2016 at 23:35 | history | answered | gung - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |