Generalized distribution based diversity measurement: Survey and unification

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

No 8023, FEMM Working Papers from Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Faculty of Economics and Management

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Diversity measurement; Generalization; Non–additivity; Concavity; Numbers equivalence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C65 Q20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2008-07
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