Estimating species richness by a poisson-compound gamma model

Biometrika

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 727-740

  Wang, Ji Ping ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crossvalidation; Nesting property of gamma mixtures; Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation; Poisson compound gamma model; Species richness estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955859018     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asq026     Document Type: Article

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