Renyi's entropy as an index of diversity in simple-stage cluster sampling

Information Sciences

Volumn 105, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 101-114

  Mayoral, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Diversity measures; Renyi's entropy; Simple stage cluster sampling

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTION; DIVERSITY MEASURES; RENYI'S ENTROPY; SIMPLE-STAGE CLUSTER SAMPLING;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0032020685     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(97)10025-1     Document Type: Article

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