infotheory: A C++/Python package for multivariate information theoretic analysis
Madhavun Candadai, Eduardo Izquierdo · The Journal of Open Source Software · 2020
This paper introduces infotheory: a package written in C++ and usable from Python and C++, for multivariate information theoretic analyses of discrete and continuous data.It is open-source (https://git.io/infot)and details on how to install it and use it are available on its website.This package allows the user to study the relationship between components of a complex system simply from the data recorded during its operation, using the tools of information theory.Specifically, this package enables the measurement of entropy and mutual information, and also allows the user to perform partial information decomposition of mutual information into unique, redundant, and synergistic information quantities.