Multi-way multi-group segregation and diversity indices

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Gorelick, Root ^a   Bertram, Susan M ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CALCULATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; NATURAL SCIENCE; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; SOCIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 77956209602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010912     Document Type: Article

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