A New Estimator of the Discovery Probability

Biometrics

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1188-1196

  Favaro, Stefano ^a,c   Lijoi, Antonio ^b,c   Prünster, Igor ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c CHILD Collegio Carlo Alberto   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian nonparametrics; Gibbs type priors; Rare species discovery; Species sampling models; Two parameter Poisson Dirichlet process

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; LIBRARIES;

BAYESIAN NONPARAMETRICS; GENOMIC LIBRARIES; GIBBS-TYPE PRIOR; POISSON-DIRICHLET PROCESS; RARE SPECIES; RARE SPECIES DISCOVERY; SAMPLING MODEL; SPECIES SAMPLING MODEL; TWO PARAMETER; TWO-PARAMETER POISSON-DIRICHLET PROCESS;

GENES;

DATA SET; DESIGN; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; RARE SPECIES; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 84871651511     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2012.01793.x     Document Type: Article

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