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Conditional entropy under a deterministic change of variables

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If f(x,z) is a bijection of x for every fixed z, then
H(f(X,Z)∣Z)=H(X∣Z).
(1)
In particular, translating a random variable in a finite group by a value determined by the conditioning variable does not change its conditional entropy.

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