An index of diversity in stratified random sampling based on the hypoentropy measure
ISSN: 0210-8054
Year of publication: 1990
Volume: 14
Issue: 1-3
Pages: 11-25
Type: Article
More publications in: Questiió: Quaderns d'Estadística, Sistemes, Informatica i Investigació Operativa
Abstract
We consider a measure of the diversity of a population based on the ?-measure of hypoentropy introduced by Ferreri (1980). Our purpose is to study its asymptotic distribution in a stratified sampling and its application to testing hypothesis. A numerical example based on real data is given