R help - May 2003 - function to compute entropy

Maybe its slightly off-topic, but can anybody
help with computing entropy on matrix of probabilities?

Guess we have a matrix of probabilites, A, 2x2, something
like this:
    z
x   0     1     2     3     4
   0 0.063 0.018 0.019 0.016 0.000
   1 0.011 0.162 0.040 0.042 0.003
   2 0.015 0.030 0.164 0.033 0.002
   3 0.012 0.035 0.036 0.159 0.002
   4 0.004 0.021 0.018 0.013 0.082

sum(A)=1

Can i compute entropy like this:
entropy<-sum(A*log2(A)) ?

is there a function for computing entropy in R?

Thanx.

Have you considered:

	entropy<-sum(A*logb(A, 2))

hth.  spencer graves

Kosenkov Kirill wrote:
> Maybe its slightly off-topic, but can anybody
> help with computing entropy on matrix of probabilities?
> 
> Guess we have a matrix of probabilites, A, 2x2, something
> like this:
>    z
> x   0     1     2     3     4
>   0 0.063 0.018 0.019 0.016 0.000
>   1 0.011 0.162 0.040 0.042 0.003
>   2 0.015 0.030 0.164 0.033 0.002
>   3 0.012 0.035 0.036 0.159 0.002
>   4 0.004 0.021 0.018 0.013 0.082
> 
> sum(A)=1
> 
> Can i compute entropy like this:
> entropy<-sum(A*log2(A)) ?
> 
> is there a function for computing entropy in R?
> 
> Thanx.
> 
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