Simulation of a Bayesian Interval Estimate for a Heterogeneity Measure
DERRICK N. JOANES, Christine A. Gill, A. J. Baczkowski · COMPSTAT · 1994
A well-known measure of the heterogeneity of a population is provided by the statistic H=− ∑ i=1 s p i log p i $$H = - \sum\limits_{i = 1}^s {{p_i}\log {p_i}}$$ where it is assumed that s possible categories have respective probabilities Pi…, Ps.