Proposal for an index to evaluate dichotomous keys.

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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Dept. Community Ecology, Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4, 06120 Halle, Germany.

Published: July 2017

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). The index is based on the evenness and allows comparing identification keys of different sizes.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5646650PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.685.13625DOI Listing

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