skbio.diversity.alpha.pielou_e

skbio.diversity.alpha.pielou_e(counts)[source]

Calculate Pielou’s Evenness index J’.

State: Experimental as of 0.4.1.

Pielou’s Evenness is defined as:

\[J' = \frac{(H)}{\ln(S)}\]

where \(H\) is the Shannon-Wiener entropy of counts and \(S\) is the number of OTUs in the sample.

Parameters:counts (1-D array_like, int) – Vector of counts.
Returns:Pielou’s Evenness.
Return type:double

See also

shannon(), heip_e()

Notes

The implementation here is based on the description in Wikipedia [1]. It was first proposed by E. C. Pielou [2] and is similar to Heip’s evenness [3].

References

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_evenness
[2]Pielou, E. C., 1966. The measurement of diversity in different types of biological collections. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 13, 131-44.
[3]Heip, C. 1974. A new index measuring evenness. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. UK., 54, 555-557.