Index: The Book of Statistical ProofsGeneral Theorems ▷ Information theory ▷ Differential entropy ▷ Joint differential entropy

Definition: Let $X$ and $Y$ be continuous random variables with possible outcomes $\mathcal{X}$ and $\mathcal{Y}$ and joint probability density function $p(x,y)$. Then, the joint differential entropy of $X$ and $Y$ is defined as

\[\label{eq:dent-joint} \mathrm{h}(X,Y) = - \int_{x \in \mathcal{X}} \int_{y \in \mathcal{Y}} p(x,y) \cdot \log_b p(x,y) \, \mathrm{d}y \, \mathrm{d}x\]

where $b$ is the base of the logarithm specifying in which unit the differential entropy is determined.

 
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