Diversity as a Concept and its Measurement

DOI10.2307/2287709zbMATH Open0511.62113OpenAlexW4236795259MaRDI QIDQ4749063FDOQ4749063

Authors: G. P. Patil, C. Taillie 

Publication date: 1982

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2287709

zbMATH Keywords

stochastic orderingmixturesincome inequalityBibliographygenetic diversityLorenz curvesindustrial concentrationdiversity decompositionspecies raritytwo-way classificationscrossing-point theoremintrinsic diversity orderinglinguistic diversityresponse theory to perturbationssensitivity of diversity indicesShannon-indexSimpson- index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Analysis of variance and covariance (ANOVA) (62J10) Ecology (92D40)

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