Estimation of the Number of Classes in a
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Barry C. Arnold; Robert J. Beaver
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The problem of estimating M , the number of classes in a population, is formulated as an occupancy problem in which N items are drawn from M urns. Under the assumption of a uniform distribution for the number of classes in the population, the sufficient statistic for M, which is the number of distin