Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options not deleted user 291450

measures of diversity (or uniformity or inequality) such as: biodiversity in ecology, income inequality in economic. Examples are entropy and simpson's indices.

0 votes

What is the role of the logarithm in Shannon's entropy?

There is a profound reason why the logarithm comes into picture, and it is not randomly chosen. The relationship between $\log$ and information stems from this simple way of writing any number $m$ (th …
manisar's user avatar