In discussing issues relating to, for example, biodiversity of different ecosystems and cultural diversities of various communities, the measurement of diversity is inevitable. This paper uses an ordinal concept of distance between objects to provide a characterization of all diversity-based...

In many instances, individual health outcomes are self-reported on several ordinal scales. The ordinal nature of the data creates some challenging problems in the measurement of inequalities of various distributions of health outcomes in a population. In this paper, we propose and discuss a...