Summers Richard L, Jackson Loretta, Woodward LouAnn H, Jones Jonathan, Dryer Sylvia
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, USA.
J Cult Divers. 2011 Summer;18(2):43-7.
A population is considered diverse if it contains individuals with a wide variety of demographic and cultural characteristics or attributes. However, it is often difficult to compare the relative diversity of two groups. It is even more difficult to specifically measure or quantify the diversity of any single group. In this paper a three step process for measuring and quantifying diversity in a human populations is described. The measurement methodologies illustrated in an example using this process are based upon fractionalization techniques and mathematical information theory.
