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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Letter to the Editor: Average Entropy Does Not Measure Uncertainty

Susan E. HodgeBattelle Center for Mathematical Medicine, The Research Institute, Nationwide Children's Hospital & Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OHCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 89-90 | Published online: 20 Mar 2017

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  • Kittaneh, O. A., Khan, M. A. U., Akbar, M., and Bayoud, H. A. (2016), “Average Entropy: A New Uncertainty Measure with Application to Image Segmentation,” The American Statistician, 70, 18–24.
  • Shannon, C. E. (1948), “A Mathematical Theory of Communications,” Bell System Technical Journal, 27, 379–423.

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