Test and Diagnostics for heterogeneity in the species problem

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 41, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 389-398

  Mao, Chang Xuan ^a   Lindsay, Bruce G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional likelihood; Graphical diagnostics; Number of species; Poisson Mixture

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

HETEROGENEOUS CLASSES; HOMOGENEOUS CLASSES;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 0037469123     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(02)00164-0     Document Type: Article

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