A penalized nonparametric maximum likelihood approach to species richness estimation

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 100, Issue 471, 2005, Pages 942-959

  Wang, Ji Ping Z ^a   Lindsay, Bruce G ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mixture model; NPMLE computing; Number of classes; Penalized nPMLE; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 24644461134     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214504000002005     Document Type: Review

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