Measuring diversity from dissimilarities with Rao's quadratic entropy: are any dissimilarities suitable?

DOI10.1016/J.TPB.2005.01.004MaRDI QIDQ2565634zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Sandrine Pavoine, Dominique Pontier, Sébastien Ollier

Publication date 28 September 2005

Published in Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2005.01.004

zbMATH Keywords

ultrametricssmallest enclosing hypersphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) General biostatistics (92B15)

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