Eliazar, Iddo; Sokolov, Igor M. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389 (2010) 16, pp. 3023-3038
Different fields of Science apply different quantitative gauges to measure statistical heterogeneity. Statistical Physics and Information Theory commonly use Shannon’s entropy which measures the randomness of probability laws, whereas Economics and the Social Sciences commonly use Gini’s...