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# scipy.special.entr

`scipy.special.``entr`(x) = <ufunc 'entr'>

  Elementwise function for computing entropy.

  \[\begin{split}\text{entr}(x) = \begin{cases} - x \log(x) & x > 0 \\ 0 & x = 0 \\ -\infty & \text{otherwise} \end{cases}\end{split}\]

  Parameters: | x : ndarray Input array.
  Returns: | res : ndarray The value of the elementwise entropy function at the given points x.

  See also

  `kl_div`, `rel_entr`

  Notes

  This function is concave.

  New in version 0.15.0.