Estimating the richness of a population when the maximum number of classes is fixed: A nonparametric solution to an archaeological problem

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Eren, Metin I ^a   Chao, Anne ^b   Hwang, Wen Han ^c   Colwell, Robert K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BOOTSTRAPPING; GEOGRAPHY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PLEISTOCENE; RACE; RELIGION; SAMPLE SIZE; SOCIAL STATUS; BIODIVERSITY; ECONOMICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; SHOE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; CENSUSES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SHOES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84861567121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034179     Document Type: Article

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