On estimating the conditional probability of discovering a new species

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2039-2056

  Nayak, Tapan K ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Admissibility; Mean squared error; Sufficiency; Unbiasedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000394953     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929608831819     Document Type: Article

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