Here's the bootstrap refinement of the normal asymptotic interval (Mills and Zandvakili, 1997; Dixon et al., 1987; Efron and Tibshirani, 1997) - where Diversity (div, g) is the Simpson Index calculated from the observed sample, k is the number boot...

I adapted a scheme for a permutation test from the PAST Software (Hammer & Harper, http://folk.uio.no/ohammer/past/diversity.html) that tests difference between diversity-indices of two samples with abundance data... Read more »