Definition
Consider n jointly distributed random variables with a joint probability density function . Let be a subset of . Now we define where . Clearly there are 2n−1 non-empty subsets of . Corresponding to each, we have the joint entropy defined as . A vector in consisting of as its elements for all non-empty subsets of . Such a vector is called an entropic vector.
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