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Generalized distribution based diversity measurement: Survey and unification

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  • Sönke Hoffmann

    (Faculty of Economics and Management, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg)

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Social and natural sciences employ a number of different measures of diversity. The presents paper surveys those depending on the distribution of abundances among a given set of categories. Characteristic properties of the measures are generalized and a unifying notation is derived. It is argued that such unification enables scientists and decision makers to measure distribution based diversity in a new, more flexible manner, and represents a useful complement to models of generalized feature based diversity, such as Nehring and Puppe’s (2002) theory of diversity.

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  • Sönke Hoffmann, 2008. "Generalized distribution based diversity measurement: Survey and unification," FEMM Working Papers 08023, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Faculty of Economics and Management.
  • Handle: RePEc:mag:wpaper:08023
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    Keywords

    Diversity measurement; Generalization; Non–additivity; Concavity; Numbers equivalence;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q20 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
    • C65 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Miscellaneous Mathematical Tools

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