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October 1, 1991Oikos

Note on Biological Diversity, Evenness, and Homogeneity Measures

Tarald O. Kvålseth Tarald O. Kvålseth

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with measurement of diversity of a biological or ecological sample of individuals belonging to various species.Using the cocept of statistical odds, an alternative diversity measure with an appealing interpretation is formulated as a simple modification of the popular Simpson index

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Kvålseth et al. (1991) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a209c519ca8a48788f36885 https://doi.org/10.2307/3545460

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