# Diversity indices **URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/diversity-indices/24710 **Category:** Ideas and Suggestions **Tags:** taxonomy **Created:** [November 9, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/diversity-indices/24710 "2022-11-09T14:14:30Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![colinbrislawn](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/colinbrislawn/32/6221_2.png) [@colinbrislawn](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/colinbrislawn) #### Post date: [November 9, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/diversity-indices/24710/2 "2022-11-09T14:51:01Z")
Good morning Shahr, Welcome to the forums! :qiime2: Here's a guide that describes all these indexes and provides citations, including the ones you mention: > [@Alpha and Beta Diversity Explanations and Commands](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alpha-and-beta-diversity-explanations-and-commands/2282): > > About the Alpha and Beta Diversity Analysis Tutorial This Alpha and Beta Diversity Community Tutorial (run using QIIME 2017.12) walks you through analyzing the alpha and beta diversity of a sample dataset. Below you will find a link to a small test dataset to download and use in this tutorial. Files used in tutorial The following files, derived from the [Moving Pictures tutorial](https://docs.qiime2.org/2017.12/tutorials/moving-pictures/), are used in this document. [table.qza](https://docs.qiime2.org/2017.12/data/tutorials/moving-pictures/table.qza)[rooted-tree.qza](https://docs.qiime2.org/2017.12/data/tutorials/moving-pictures/rooted-tree.qza)Alpha Diversity Analysis The alpha and alpha-phylogenetic met… > [@Shahr\_Bano](#): > > Now I need an expert suggestion to choose the better indices to write and explain. should I use all of them or selected ones? Based on your literature review of similar papers in the field, what metrics do other researchers commonly report? What biological question are you trying to answer on this project? 🌲 🌲 🤔 --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/diversity-indices/24710)._