The generalized Simpson's entropy is a measure of biodiversity.

Modern measures of diversity satisfy reasonable axioms, are parameterized to produce diversity profiles, can be expressed as an effective number of species to simplify their interpretation, and come with estimators that allow one to apply them to real-world data. We introduce the generalized Simpson...

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Main Authors: Michael Grabchak, Eric Marcon, Gabriel Lang, Zhiyi Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5340404?pdf=render