Hello Ecolog-L:
Does anyone know why the Shannon (or Shannon Weiner, Shannon-Weiner)
diversity index abbreviated with the letter H?
Is the answer related to the first letter of the last name of Hulbert
(citation below)?
Hulbert, S. H. 1971. The nonconcept of species diversity: a critique and
The Shannon Index is derived from the paper below. It was originally
developed as a measure of the information content of a signal. I had a
pdf I would post, but the file is corrupted.
Shannon, C. E. (1948) A mathematical theory of communication. The Bell
System Technical Journal, 27, 379423
In that paper, Shannon calls it H as it is like a measure of entropy in
Boltzmann's H theorem...
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On 26/03/14 16:22, Jorge A. Santiago-Blay wrote:
Hello Ecolog-L:
Does anyone know why the Shannon (or Shannon Weiner, Shannon-Weiner)
diversity index abbreviated with the letter H?
Is the answer related to the first letter of the last name of Hulbert
(citation below)?
Hulbert, S. H. 1971. The
] Why is the Shannon (or Shannon Weiner, Shannon-Weiner)
diversity index abbreviated with the letter H?
Hello Ecolog-L:
Does anyone know why the Shannon (or Shannon Weiner, Shannon-Weiner)
diversity index abbreviated with the letter H?
.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf
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diversity index abbreviated with the letter H?
Hello Ecolog-L:
Does anyone know why the Shannon (or Shannon Weiner, Shannon-Weiner)
diversity index abbreviated with the letter H?
.