HLoc: A function to compute local diversity index

In OasisR: Outright Tool for the Analysis of Spatial Inequalities and Segregation

A function to compute local diversity index

Description

Local diversity index, HLoc, is a local adaptation of Pielou's normalized diversity index NShannon.

Usage

HLoc(x)

Arguments

x

an object of class matrix (or which can be coerced to that class), where each column represents the distribution of a group within spatial units. The number of columns should be greater than 1 (at least 2 groups are required). You should not include a column with total population, because this will be interpreted as a group.

Value

A numeric matrix containing the local diversity index values for each spatial unit

References

Theil H. (1972) Statistical Decomposition Analysis. North-Holland, Amsterdam

See Also

Other local indices LQ LShannon, LSimpson

Examples

x <- segdata@data[ ,1:2]
HLoc(x) 

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