Towards a unifying approach to diversity measures: bridging the gap between the Shannon entropy and Rao's quadratic index
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Towards a unifying approach to diversity measures: bridging the gap between the Shannon entropy and Rao's quadratic index
zbMATH Open document ID: 1112.92067
author: Carlo Ricotta
author: Laszlo Szeidl
published in: Theoretical Population Biology
publication date: 2007-06-13T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92D40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 94A17
zbMATH DE Number: 5164063
zbMATH Keywords: Concavity
zbMATH Keywords: Conflict
zbMATH Keywords: Information theory
zbMATH Keywords: Pairwise species distances
zbMATH Keywords: Parametric diversity
zbMATH Keywords: Rarity
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: j.tpb.2006.06.003
OpenAlex ID: W2149621874
Wikidata QID: Q51722767
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DOI: 10.1016/J.TPB.2006.06.003
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5164063