A simple characterization of the family of diversity indices

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2016.08.036MaRDI QIDQ1672599zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Denis Davydov, Shlomo Weber

Publication date 11 September 2018

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.08.036

zbMATH Keywords

axiomsconsistencydiversity indexentropyfractionalization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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