**1.1.3 Required features for a (Dis) similarity measures**

From the previous studies mentioned above it is obvious that a measure of diversity should possess the following three properties:


From the multi-plot similarity measures found in the literature and introduced above, none meets all these properties. Thus, we propose a new multi-plot similarity measure, which is discussed in the method section. We call it simply the coefficient of multi-plot similarity. The performance of this new measure regarding the detection of typical pattern is tested for the random and continuous datasets carried out in the Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh (India).
