Confidence intervals for the number of unseen types

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 423-430

  Finkelstein, Mark ^a   Tucker, Howard G ^a   Veeh, Jerry Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Coupon collector's problem; Occupancy problem; Wildlife abundance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032579718     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(97)00146-6     Document Type: Article

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