计算熵

Question

我已经尝试了几个小时来计算熵,我知道我错过了什么.希望有人在这里可以给我一个想法!

编辑:我认为我的公式错了!

码:

 info <- function(CLASS.FREQ){
      freq.class <- CLASS.FREQ
      info <- 0
      for(i in 1:length(freq.class)){
        if(freq.class[[i]] != 0){ # zero check in class
          entropy <- -sum(freq.class[[i]] * log2(freq.class[[i]]))  #I calculate the entropy for each class i here
        }else{ 
          entropy <- 0
        } 
        info <- info + entropy # sum up entropy from all classes
      }
      return(info)
    }

我希望我的帖子很清楚,因为这是我第一次在这里发帖.

这是我的数据集:

buys <- c("no", "no", "yes", "yes", "yes", "no", "yes", "no", "yes", "yes", "yes", "yes", "yes", "no")

credit <- c("fair", "excellent", "fair", "fair", "fair", "excellent", "excellent", "fair", "fair", "fair", "excellent", "excellent", "fair", "excellent")

student <- c("no", "no", "no","no", "yes", "yes", "yes", "no", "yes", "yes", "yes", "no", "yes", "no")

income <- c("high", "high", "high", "medium", "low", "low", "low", "medium", "low", "medium", "medium", "medium", "high", "medium")

age <- c(25, 27, 35, 41, 48, 42, 36, 29, 26, 45, 23, 33, 37, 44) # we change the age from categorical to numeric

Answer 1

最终,我发现代码中没有错误,因为它运行时没有错误.我认为你缺少的部分是课程频率的计算,你会得到你的答案.快速浏览您提供的不同对象,我怀疑您正在查看buys.

buys <- c("no", "no", "yes", "yes", "yes", "no", "yes", "no", "yes", "yes", "yes", "yes", "yes", "no")
freqs <- table(buys)/length(buys)
info(freqs)
[1] 0.940286

作为改进代码的问题,如果提供类频率向量,则可以大大简化这一过程,因为您不需要循环.

例如:

# calculate shannon-entropy
-sum(freqs * log2(freqs))
[1] 0.940286

作为旁注,该函数entropy.empirical位于entropy包中,您可以将单位设置为log2,从而提供更大的灵活性.例:

entropy.empirical(freqs, unit="log2")
[1] 0.940286