Proposal for an index to evaluate dichotomous keys

By

Nguyen, Van Sinh
Wiemers, Martin, 1966-
Settele, Josef

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2017

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

685

Pages

83-89

Subjects

Dichotomous key , Evaluation , index

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.685.13625

 

Abstract

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