Predicting future discoveries of European marine species by using a non-homogeneous renewal process

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 897-918

  Wilson, Simon P ^a   Costello, Mark J ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Dispersion; Diversity; Renewal process; Reversible jump; Species; Thinned point process

Indexed keywords

EID: 27344437873     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2005.00513.x     Document Type: Article

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