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72 divc<br />

divc<br />

Rao’s diversity coefficient also called quadratic entropy<br />

Description<br />

Calculates Rao’s diversity coefficient within samples.<br />

Usage<br />

divc(df, dis, scale)<br />

Arguments<br />

df<br />

dis<br />

scale<br />

a data frame with elements as rows, samples as columns, and abundance, presenceabsence<br />

or frequencies as entries<br />

an object of class dist containing distances or dissimilarities among elements.<br />

If dis is NULL, Gini-Simpson index is performed.<br />

a logical value indicating whether or not the diversity coefficient should be<br />

scaled by its maximal value over all frequency distributions.<br />

Value<br />

Returns a data frame with samples as rows and the diversity coefficient within samples as columns<br />

Author(s)<br />

Sandrine Pavoine 〈pavoine@biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr〉<br />

References<br />

Rao, C.R. (1982) Diversity and dissimilarity coefficients: a unified approach. <strong>The</strong>oretical Population<br />

Biology, 21, 24–43.<br />

Gini, C. (1912) Variabilitá e mutabilitá. Universite di Cagliari III, Parte II.<br />

Simpson, E.H. (1949) Measurement of diversity. Nature, 163, 688.<br />

Champely, S. and Chessel, D. (2002) Measuring biological diversity using Euclidean metrics. Environmental<br />

and Ecological Statistics, 9, 167–177.<br />

Examples<br />

data(ecomor)<br />

dtaxo

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