A functional approach to diversity profiles

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 267-284

  Gattone, Stefano A ^a   Battista, Tonio Di ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biological population; Diversity index; Diversity profile; Functional data analysis; Intrinsic diversity ordering; Smoothing splines

Indexed keywords

EID: 63849191079     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2009.00646.x     Document Type: Article

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