Definition
The joint entropy of two variables and is defined as
where and are particular values of and, respectively, is the probability of these values occurring together, and is defined to be 0 if .
For more than two variables this expands to
where are particular values of, respectively, is the probability of these values occurring together, and is defined to be 0 if .
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