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I can't work out the entropy formula for TraMineR
I used the ggseqplot() library to calculate the entropy from the TraMineR library. To familiarise myself with the formula, I tried unsuccessfully to calculate it by hand using simple example data.
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calculating entropy in a sequence of letters
I am trying to calculate shannon's entropy of sequence of letters, for example,
A <- c('A-A-A-A', 'A-B-C-D-E-E', 'A-B-D-F-G-E')
I am trying to use the TraMineR ways to do so, but as I already have ...
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Rule of thumb for interpreting the size of entropy
I have a question regarding the interpretation of entropy. For each person in my dataset, I have a string/sequence of 17 characters(years) long. I am particularly interested in how much variation ...
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