The Kullback–Leibler divergence between discrete probability distributions

If you have been learning about machine learning or mathematical statistics, you might have heard about the Kullback–Leibler divergence. The Kullback–Leibler divergence is a measure of dissimilarity between two probability distributions. It measures how much one distribution differs from a reference distribution. This article explains the Kullback–Leibler divergence and shows how to compute it for discrete probability distributions. Recall that there are many statistical methods that indicate how much two distributions differ.