DiversityStats: Diversity Indices with Statistical Inference

Version : 0.0.0.9000; License: GPL-2|GPL-3

Aravind, J. and Suman Roy

Division of Germplasm Conservation, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi.

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Description

Provides a comprehensive framework for analyzing diversity fromfrequency/abundance count data. Implements a wide range of classical andentropy-based diversity indices, including Berger-Parker, Simpson (andrelated variants), Shannon, Brillouin, McIntosh, Margalef, Menhinick andSmith-Wilson. Supports permutation-based hypothesis tests for comparinggroups with respect to diversity (global and pairwise comparisons), as wellas confidence interval estimation using multiple bootstrap methods.Includes functionality for generating diversity profiles based onparametric families such as Hill numbers, Rényi entropy, and Tsallisentropy. The methods are applicable to ecological community data (speciesabundance counts) and genetic or phenotypic class frequency data.

Installation

The development version can be installed from github as follows:

# Install development version from Github
devtools::install_github("aravind-j/DiversityStats")

What’s new

To know whats new in this version type:

news(package='DiversityStats')

Links

Github page

Documentation website

Citing DiversityStats

To cite the methods in the package use:

citation("DiversityStats")

To cite package 'DiversityStats' in publications use:

  Aravind J, Roy S (2026). _DiversityStats: Diversity Indices with
  Statistical Inference_. R package version 0.0.0.9000,
  <https://github.com/aravind-j/DiversityStats>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {DiversityStats: Diversity Indices with Statistical Inference},
    author = {J. Aravind and Suman Roy},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 0.0.0.9000},
    url = {https://github.com/aravind-j/DiversityStats},
  }