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Diversity Index

Source: R/AllClasses.R
DiversityIndex-class.Rd

An S4 class to represent a diversity measure.

Slots

.Data

A numeric vector of diversity measures.

labels

A character vector giving the sample names.

size

An integer vector giving the sample sizes.

data

A numeric matrix of count data.

method

A character string specifying the method used.

simulation

A four columns numeric matrix giving the diversity measures for the simulated assemblage (sample size, mean estimate, lower and upper boundaries of the confidence interval).

Note

This class inherits from base numeric.

Coerce

In the code snippets below, x is an DiversityIndex object.

as.data.frame(x)

Coerces to a data.frame.

See also

Other classes: CompositionIndex-class, EvennessIndex-class, HeterogeneityIndex-class, RarefactionIndex-class, RichnessIndex-class

Author

N. Frerebeau