Generic Entropy Class
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; public class EntropyEx<T> { private const double NaturalLogOfTwo = 0.69314718055994530941723212145818; private readonly Dictionary<T, int> _histograpm = new Dictionary<T, int>(); private bool _histograpmStatus; private readonly int _size; public EntropyEx() { _histograpm.Clear(); _histograpmStatus = false; _size = GetSize(); } public double Entropy(string str) { var s = str.GetBytes(Encoding.Default); var histograpmL = new Dictionary<byte, int>(); foreach (var c in s) if (!histograpmL.ContainsKey(c)) histograpmL.Add(c, 1); else histograpmL[c] += 1; var e = 0.0; foreach (var v in histograpmL.Values) { if (v <= 0) continue; var r = v / (double)s.Length; e -= r * (Math.Log(r) / NaturalLogOfTwo); } return e / 8 * 100.0; } public double Entropy(T[] s) { if (_histograpmStatus) { _histograpm.Clear(); _histograpmStatus = false; } foreach (var c in s) if (!_histograpm.ContainsKey(c)) _histograpm.Add(c, 1); else _histograpm[c] += 1; _histograpmStatus = true; var e = 0.0; foreach (var v in _histograpm.Values) { if (v <= 0) continue; var r = v / (double) s.Length; e -= r * (Math.Log(r) / NaturalLogOfTwo); } return e / _size * 100.0; } private byte[] ConvertTypeByteArray(T[] ia) { switch (Type.GetTypeCode(typeof(T))) { case TypeCode.Boolean: break; case TypeCode.Char: break; case TypeCode.SByte: break; case TypeCode.Byte: break; case TypeCode.Int16: break; case TypeCode.UInt16: break; case TypeCode.Int32: break; case TypeCode.UInt32: break; case TypeCode.Single: break; case TypeCode.String: break; case TypeCode.Decimal: break; case TypeCode.Int64: break; case TypeCode.UInt64: break; case TypeCode.Double: break; case TypeCode.DateTime: break; default: throw new ArgumentException("Type is not a valid primitive."); } return ia.GetBytes(); } private int GetSize() { var size = 0; switch (Type.GetTypeCode(typeof(T))) { case TypeCode.Boolean: size = 1; break; case TypeCode.Char: size = 16; break; case TypeCode.SByte: size = 8; break; case TypeCode.Byte: size = 8; break; case TypeCode.Int16: size = 16; break; case TypeCode.UInt16: size = 16; break; case TypeCode.Int32: size = 32; break; case TypeCode.UInt32: size = 32; break; case TypeCode.Single: size = 32; break; case TypeCode.String: size = 32; break; case TypeCode.Decimal: size = 192; break; case TypeCode.Int64: size = 64; break; case TypeCode.UInt64: size = 64; break; case TypeCode.Double: size = 64; break; case TypeCode.DateTime: size = 64; break; default: throw new ArgumentException("Type is not a valid primitive within this context."); } return size; } }