A forgotten discrete distribution? Reviving the negative hypergeometric model

American Statistician

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 347-350

  Miller, Gregory K ^a   Fridell, Stephanie L ^b  

^a STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lon Morris College   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Capture recapture; Quota sampling; Relationships among distributions; Sampling with without replacement

Indexed keywords

EID: 36649006602     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313007X245140     Document Type: Article

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