Information Measures Based on Sampling Distributions
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Information theory and Statistics play an important role in Biological Sciences when we use information measures for the study of diversity and equitability. In this communication, we develop the link among the three disciplines and prove that sampling distributions can be used to develop new information measures. Our study will be an interdisciplinary and will find its applications in Biological systems. Keywords—Entropy; concavity; symmetry; arithmetic mean; diversity; equitability
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تاریخ انتشار 2012