On estimating the number of species from the discovery record

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1560, 2005, Pages 285-287

  Solow, Andrew R ^a   Smith, Woollcott K ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Large marine animals; Maximum likelihood estimation; Non stationary Poisson process; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAMMAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DATA COLLECTION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 16244376168     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2955     Document Type: Article

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