skbio.diversity.alpha.heip_e

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

Calculate Heip’s evenness measure.

State: Experimental as of 0.4.0.

Heip’s evenness is defined as:

\[\frac{(e^H-1)}{(S-1)}\]

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

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

See also

shannon(), pielou_e()

Notes

The implementation here is based on the description in [1].

References

[1]Heip, C. 1974. A new index measuring evenness. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. UK., 54, 555-557.