{\LARGE \frac{1}{\sum P_{i}^{2}}}

aEffective number of classes=EffectiveNumberOfClasses

Qualitative variation

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_entropy   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_variation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinomial_distribution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_distribution    

References

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Wilcox, Allen R. (June 1973), “Indices of Qualitative Variation and Political Measurement”, The Western Political Quarterly 26 (2): 325–343, doi:10.2307/446831, JSTOR 446831

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