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Measuring diversity in biological populations with logarithmic abundance distributions
Author(s) -
Wani Jagannath K.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
canadian journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.804
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1708-945X
pISSN - 0319-5724
DOI - 10.2307/3315049
Subject(s) - abundance (ecology) , logarithm , logarithmic distribution , mathematics , meaning (existential) , diversity (politics) , statistics , relative abundance distribution , relative species abundance , distribution (mathematics) , set (abstract data type) , ecology , biology , mathematical analysis , computer science , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , poisson distribution , anthropology , negative binomial distribution , programming language
Fisher's logarithmic distribution for species abundance is derived under a suitable set of conditions. The derivation explains the explicit meaning of the two parameters of the distribution.