Ah, that's very fancy, it's going to be great to have this! We should encourage this as much as possible.

On Apr 28, 2014, at 10:09 AM, Jai Ram Rideout <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In skbio/maths/diversity/alpha/base.py:
> 
> > +
> > +    References
> > +    ----------
> > +    .. [1] http://www.pisces-conservation.com/sdrhelp/index.html
> > +
> > +    """
> > +    counts = _validate(counts)
> > +    numerator = shannon(counts, base)
> > +    denominator = np.log(observed_species(counts)) / np.log(base)
> > +    return numerator / denominator
> > +
> > +
> > +def esty_ci(counts):
> > +    """Calculate Esty's CI.
> > +
> > +    Esty's CI is defined as ``n1/n  +/- z*sqrt(W)`` where ``n1`` is the number
> Yep, should already be good to go. The ordination code has some light usage of mathjax for rendering variables, so was planning to use something like that here.
> 
> I'm hoping to have equations rendered like scipy's distance module, e.g.:
> 
> http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.spatial.distance.canberra.html#scipy.spatial.distance.canberra
> 
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