skbio.diversity.alpha.
menhinick
(counts)[source]¶Calculate Menhinick’s richness index.
State: Experimental as of 0.4.0.
Menhinick’s richness index is defined as:
where \(S\) is the number of OTUs and \(N\) is the total number of individuals in the sample.
Assumes square-root accumulation.
counts (1-D array_like, int) – Vector of counts.
Menhinick’s richness index.
double
Notes
Based on the description in 1.
References
Magurran, A E 2004. Measuring biological diversity. Blackwell. pp. 76-77.