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Activity Number: 652
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 13, 2015 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Biometrics Section
Abstract #314878
Title: Diversity and the Polylog
Author(s): Michael Anderson*
Companies: The University of Texas at San Antonio
Keywords: diversity index ; species abundance ; polylog distribution ; discrete Pareto distribution
Abstract:

Ecologists and wildlife biologists use the Zipf, logarithmic, and lognormal distributions to model species abundance. The polylog distribution provides a unifying model that can provide estimates of diversity indicies and total species counts. The distribution can be used in generalized linear models to determine the effects of environmental characteristics on habitat diversity. Examples from biology, linguistics, and library science are presented.

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