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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Roughan M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7043799 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20200226 2
The number of characters in a movie is an important feature. However, it is non-trivial to measure directly, for example naive metrics such as the number of credited characters vary wildly. Here, we show that a metric based on the notion of ecological diversity as expressed through a Shannon-entropy based metric can characterise the number of characters in a movie, and is useful in taxonomic classification. We also show how the metric can be generalised using Jensen-Shannon divergence to provide ...[more]