[SciPy-dev] [PATCH] scipy.stats.entropy documentation should mention log base

[Luis Pedro Coelho]

Hello,

It took me a while to figure out that stats.entropy does it logarithms base e. 
I expected it to work base 2 (from where I'm coming from, that's the 
traditional definition of entropy, but maybe other communities have other 
expectations).

The attached patch adds a sentence to the documentation to that effect. It 
also adds an entropy2() function which works base 2.

regards,
--
Luís Pedro Coelho
PhD Student in Computational Biology, CMU
http://www.luispedro.org
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