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On Estimating the Number of Species from the Discovery Record

✍ Scribed by Andrew R. Solow and Woollcott K. Smith

Book ID
125042798
Publisher
The Royal Society
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
480 KB
Volume
272
Category
Article
ISSN
0080-4649

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Suppose we have observed only the number of records in a random sample of unknown size n from a continuous distribution. Based on this data, we propose an unbiased estimator of n and derive expressions for its maximum likelihood estimator and an estimator based on the method of moments.