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Diversity Index

(Phylogenetic Indices/ Phylogenetic Metrics)

is a quantitative measure that reflects how many different types (such


as species) there are in a dataset (a community) and that can
simultaneously take into account the phylogenetic relations among the
individuals distributed among those types, such
as richness, divergence or evenness.
Example
Problem Statement:
The samples of 5 species are 60,10,25,1,4.
Calculate the Shannon diversity index and
Evenness for these sample values.
Sample Values (S) = 60,10,25,1,4
number of species (N) =5
First, let us calculate the sum of the given values, sum = (60+10+25+1+4) = 100

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