shannon function

Evaluate Shannon Entropy for a Set of Fingerprints

Evaluate Shannon Entropy for a Set of Fingerprints

This method evaluates the Shannon entropy for a set of fingerprints and utilizes the bit.spectrum method to obtain the relative frequencies of individual bits

shannon(fplist)

Arguments

  • fplist: A list structure with each element being an object of class fingerprint. These will can be constructed by hand or read from disk via fp.read.

    All fingerprints in the list should be of the same length.

Returns

The Shannon entropy for the set of fingerprints

See Also

bit.spectrum, fp.read

Author(s)

Rajarshi Guha rajarshi.guha@gmail.com

  • Maintainer: Rajarshi Guha
  • License: GPL
  • Last published: 2018-01-07

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