Proposal for an index to evaluate dichotomous keys

Abstract. Dichotomous keys are the most popular type of identification keys. Studies have been conducted to evaluate dichotomous keys in many aspects. In this paper we propose an index for quantitative evaluation of dichotomous keys (E(dicho)). The index is based on the evenness and allows comparing...

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Autores principales: Sinh, Nguyen Van, Wiemers, Martin, Settele, Josef
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5646650/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29089839
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.685.13625
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description Abstract. Dichotomous keys are the most popular type of identification keys. Studies have been conducted to evaluate dichotomous keys in many aspects. In this paper we propose an index for quantitative evaluation of dichotomous keys (E(dicho)). The index is based on the evenness and allows comparing identification keys of different sizes.
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spelling pubmed-56466502017-10-31 Proposal for an index to evaluate dichotomous keys Sinh, Nguyen Van Wiemers, Martin Settele, Josef Zookeys Research Article Abstract. Dichotomous keys are the most popular type of identification keys. Studies have been conducted to evaluate dichotomous keys in many aspects. In this paper we propose an index for quantitative evaluation of dichotomous keys (E(dicho)). The index is based on the evenness and allows comparing identification keys of different sizes. Pensoft Publishers 2017-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5646650/ /pubmed/29089839 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.685.13625 Text en Nguyen Van Sinh, Martin Wiemers, Josef Settele http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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