Length of a probability
machine-learning
Length of a probability
For an event $A$ if $\mathbb{P}[A] = p$ then we say the length of $A$ is
$$length(A) = -\log(p) \in [0, \infty).$$Note the lower the probability of the event the longer it is.
For an event $A$ if $\mathbb{P}[A] = p$ then we say the length of $A$ is
$$length(A) = -\log(p) \in [0, \infty).$$Note the lower the probability of the event the longer it is.