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A previous article discusses the Gini-Simpson diversity index and how to compute it in SAS.

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A previous article discusses the Gini-Simpson diversity index and how to compute it in SAS. Suppose you have a sample that contains R classes. (Classes are also called groups or categories.) Intuitively, the sample exhibits "high diversity" if the class sizes are approximately equal. The sample shows "low diversity" if

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