Inference on the number of species through geometric lower bounds

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 101, Issue 476, 2006, Pages 1663-1670

  Mao, Chang Xuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Expressed sequence tags; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846104461     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214506000000528     Document Type: Article

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