get_Hill: computes hill number from a distribution The Hill numbers...

In jbferet/biodivMapR: biodivMapR: an R package for a- and ß-diversity mapping using remotely-sensed images

computes hill number from a distribution The Hill numbers quantify biodiversity. The importance of the abundance distribution increases with increasing Hill order. For q=0, the Hill number is the richness, for q=1, it is the exponential Shannon entropy and for q=2, it is the inverse Simpson index. Note that the Hill order can also be a fraction, e.g. 0.5.

Description

computes hill number from a distribution The Hill numbers quantify biodiversity. The importance of the abundance distribution increases with increasing Hill order. For q=0, the Hill number is the richness, for q=1, it is the exponential Shannon entropy and for q=2, it is the inverse Simpson index. Note that the Hill order can also be a fraction, e.g. 0.5.

Usage

get_Hill(Distrib, q = 1)

Arguments

Distrib	Distribution
q	numeric. Hill order

Value

hill number corresponding to the distribution

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