skbio.diversity.alpha.
chao1
(counts, bias_corrected=True)[source]¶Calculate chao1 richness estimator.
State: Experimental as of 0.4.0.
Uses the bias-corrected version unless bias_corrected is False
and
there are both singletons and doubletons.
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Returns: | Computed chao1 richness estimator. |
Return type: | double |
See also
Notes
The uncorrected version is based on Equation 6 in [1]:
where \(F_1\) and \(F_2\) are the count of singletons and doubletons, respectively.
The bias-corrected version is defined as
References
[1] | Chao, A. 1984. Non-parametric estimation of the number of classes in a population. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 11, 265-270. |