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rdiversity (version 1.0)

qD: Hill number / naive diversity with no similarity

Description

Calculates the diversity of a series of columns representing independent populations, for a series of orders, repesented as a vector of qs.

Usage

qD(populations, qs)

Arguments

populations

- population counts or proportions.

qs

- vector of values of parameter q.

Value

Returns an object of class data.frame with columns as populations, rows as values of q, and elements containing diversities.

Details

qD is used to calculate the diversity of a population (in the naive-type case).