title: Methodology for measuring diversity in human populations.
abstract: 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.
authors: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, USA. rsummers@pol.net
authors: Richard L
authors: RL
authors: Summers
authors: Loretta
authors: L
authors: Jackson
authors: LouAnn H
authors: LH
authors: Woodward
authors: Jonathan
authors: J
authors: Jones
authors: Sylvia
authors: S
authors: Dryer
mesh_terms: D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003710:Demography; D005006:Ethnicity; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011153:Population; D012107:Research Design; D012931:Social Environment