Sequential stopping rules for species accumulation

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 184-195

  Christen, J Andrés ^a   Nakamura, Miguel ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Backward induction; Bayesian methods; Biodiversity; Monte Carlo methods; Utility functions

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0141883669     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/1085711031553     Document Type: Article

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