Estimating the number of species in microbial diversity studies

Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 427-445

  Bunge, John ^a   Willis, Amy ^a   Walsh, Fiona ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Education and Research   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Mixed poisson; Number of classes; Sample coverage; Species richness; Zero truncation; diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893668843     PISSN: 23268298     EISSN: 2326831X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-statistics-022513-115654     Document Type: Article

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