Strong's dominance index
Strong's dominance index measures the maximum departure between the observed proportions and a perfectly even community.
strong(x)
x |
A numeric vector of species counts. |
Strong's dominance index is defined as
D_W = \max_i ≤ft [ \frac{b_i}{N} - \frac{i}{S} \right ],
where b_i is the abundance of the ith species, ordered from smallest to largest, N is the total number of counts, and S is the number of species observed.
Equivalent to strong() in skbio.diversity.alpha.
Strong's dominance index, 0 ≤q D_W < 1. The index is
undefined if x sums to 0, and we return NaN in this case.
Strong WL. Assessing species abundance uneveness within and between plant communities. Community Ecology. 2002;3:237-246.
x <- c(9, 0, 1, 2, 5, 2, 1, 1, 0, 7, 2, 1, 0, 1, 1) strong(x)
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