Entropic representation and estimation of diversity indices

DOI10.1080/10485252.2016.1190357zbMATH Open1348.62112OpenAlexW1957617498MaRDI QIDQ2832017FDOQ2832017

Authors: Zhiyi Zhang, Michael Grabchak 

Publication date: 4 November 2016

Published in: Journal of Nonparametric Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper serves a twofold purpose. First, a unified perspective on diversity indices is introduced based on an entropic basis. It is shown that the class of all linear combinations of the entropic basis, referred to as the class of linear diversity indices, covers a wide range of diversity indices used in the literature. Second, a class of estimators for linear diversity indices is proposed and it is shown that these estimators have rapidly decaying biases and asymptotic normality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.3031

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic normalityentropynonparametric estimationdiversity indicesentropic basis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20)

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