Abstract
The fractional entropy S(X) has been introduced by the second author as a pragmatic measure of the "fractional uncertainty" contained in the random variable X. We prove new properties for S(X). In particular we prove that the joint fractional entropy is superadditive under independence of its random arguments.
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Fioretto, A., Sgarro, A. (1991). Joint fractional entropy. In: Cohen, G., Charpin, P. (eds) EUROCODE '90. EUROCODE 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 514. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54303-1_140
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