Diversity as a Concept and its Measurement

Bibliography stochastic ordering income inequality mixtures Lorenz curves genetic diversity industrial concentration diversity decomposition species rarity two-way classifications crossing-point theorem intrinsic diversity ordering linguistic diversity response theory to perturbations sensitivity of diversity indices Shannon-index Simpson- index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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