DiversityStats: Diversity Indices with Statistical Inference
Provides a comprehensive framework for analyzing diversity from
frequency/abundance count data. Implements a wide range of classical and
entropy-based diversity indices, including Berger-Parker, Simpson (and
related variants), Shannon, Brillouin, McIntosh, Margalef, Menhinick and
Smith-Wilson. Supports permutation-based hypothesis tests for comparing
groups with respect to diversity (global and pairwise comparisons), as well
as confidence interval estimation using multiple bootstrap methods.
Includes functionality for generating diversity profiles based on
parametric families such as Hill numbers, Rényi entropy, and Tsallis
entropy. The methods are applicable to ecological community data (species
abundance counts) and genetic or phenotypic class frequency data.
| Version: |
0.1.0 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 3.5) |
| Imports: |
boot, dplyr, mathjaxr, multcompView, Rdpack, stats, tidyr, utils |
| Suggests: |
cluster, EvaluateCore, ggplot2, knitr, pander, rmarkdown, vegan |
| Published: |
2026-05-04 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.DiversityStats (may not be active yet) |
| Author: |
J. Aravind  [aut,
cre],
Suman Roy [aut],
Anju Mahendru Singh
[aut],
ICAR-NBGPR  [cph] (url:
https://nbpgr.org.in/) |
| Maintainer: |
J. Aravind <j.aravind at icar.org.in> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/aravind-j/DiversityStats/issues |
| License: |
GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| Copyright: |
2025-2026, ICAR-NBPGR |
| URL: |
https://github.com/aravind-j/DiversityStats
https://aravind-j.github.io/DiversityStats/ |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Citation: |
DiversityStats citation info |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
DiversityStats results |
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