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No Detailed solution required, just the answer please. Consider a distribution D whose domain is {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8} and defines probabilities as follows. P(1)=1/4, P(2)=1/4, P(3)=1/4, P(4)=1/16, P(5)=1/16, P(6)=1/16, P(7)=1/32, P(8)=1/32 What is the entropy of D?

No Detailed solution required, just the answer please. Consider a distribution D whose domain is {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8} and defines probabilities as follows. P(1)=1/4, P(2)=1/4, P(3)=1/4, P(4)=1/16, P(5)=1/16, P(6)=1/16, P(7)=1/32, P(8)=1/32 What is the entropy of D?

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Consider a distribution D whose domain is {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8} and defines probabilities as follows.

P(1)=1/4, P(2)=1/4, P(3)=1/4, P(4)=1/16, P(5)=1/16, P(6)=1/16, P(7)=1/32, P(8)=1/32



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