Compute the mutual information of two discrete samples

Source: R/tools_misc.R

Compute the mutual information of two discrete samples

MI(cl1, cl2)

Arguments

cl1

vector of discrete labels

cl2

vector of discrete labels

Value

the mutual information between the two discrete samples

Examples

cl1 <- sample(2, 500, replace = TRUE)
cl2 <- sample(2, 500, replace = TRUE)
MI(cl1, cl2)
#> [1] 0.00309814