Towards a unifying approach to diversity measures: Bridging the gap between the Shannon entropy and Rao's quadratic index

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 237-243

  Ricotta, Carlo ^a   Szeidl, Laszlo ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Concavity; Conflict; Information theory; Pairwise species distances; Parametric diversity; Rarity

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; NUMERICAL METHOD; RARITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ENTROPY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MATHEMATICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PROBABILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNCERTAINTY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ENTROPY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UNCERTAINTY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33749443207     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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