bundles / scipy latest / scipy / stats / _multivariate / vonmises_fisher_gen / entropy

function

`scipy.stats._multivariate:vonmises_fisher_gen.entropy`

source: build-install/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/scipy/stats/_multivariate.py:7559

Signature

def entropy(self, mu = None, kappa = 1)

Summary

Compute the differential entropy of the von Mises-Fisher distribution.

Parameters

mu : array_like, default: None: Mean direction of the distribution. Must be a one-dimensional unit vector of norm 1.
kappa : float, default: 1: Concentration parameter. Must be positive.

Returns

h : scalar: Entropy of the von Mises-Fisher distribution.

Aliases

scipy.stats._multivariate.vonmises_fisher_gen.entropy