• Title of article

    Shannonʹs entropy as an index of product variety

  • Author/Authors

    Sebastiaan M. Straathof، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    297
  • To page
    303
  • Abstract
    The antilog of Shannonʹs entropy possesses three properties that support its use as an index of product variety. What distinguishes this index from other indexes is that it can be decomposed in a consistent way.
  • Keywords
    Product variety , Entropy
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2007
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    436153