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== See Also ==
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* [[Margalef Index]]
  
 
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Latest revision as of 23:44, 14 June 2021

Definition

The Menhinick Index is a simple metric useful for the purpose of measuring diversity.

Details

The index is only applicable for categorical data where all observations can be classified into a finite number of categories (species, types etc)

More precisely, if we have n observations values and a total of S categories, then the D index is defined as


I = \frac{S}{\sqrt N}

Implementations

Open Source implementations of the Menhinick index are available in

See Also

References