skbio.diversity.alpha.
menhinick
(counts)[source]¶Calculate Menhinick’s richness index.
State: Experimental as of 0.4.0.
Menhinick’s richness index is defined as:
where \(S\) is the number of OTUs and \(N\) is the total number of individuals in the sample.
Assumes square-root accumulation.
Parameters: | counts : 1-D array_like, int
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Returns: | double
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Notes
Based on the description in [R39].
References
[R39] | (1, 2) Magurran, A E 2004. Measuring biological diversity. Blackwell. pp. 76-77. |