Simultaneous inference for diversity indices.
Description
Package simboot provides estimation of simultaneous
bootstrap and asymptotic confidence intervals for diversity
indices, namely the Shannon and the Simpson index. Several
pre--specified multiple comparison types are available to
choose. Further user--defined contrast matrices are applicable.
In addition, simboot estimates adjusted as well as unadjusted
p--values for two of the three proposed bootstrap methods.
Further simboot allows for comparing biological diversities of
two or more groups while simultaneously testing a user-defined
selection of Hill numbers of orders q, which are considered as
appropriate and useful indices for measuring diversity.