An improved nonparametric lower bound of species richness via a modified good-turing frequency formula

Biometrics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 671-682

  Chiu, Chun Huo ^a   Wang, Yi Ting ^a   Walther, Bruno A ^b   Chao, Anne ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Abundance data; Good Turing frequency formula; Incidence data; Species richness

Indexed keywords

MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

ABUNDANCE DATA; DIVERSE COMMUNITY; GOOD-TURING; GOOD-TURING FREQUENCY FORMULA; INCIDENCE DATA; INDIVIDUAL-BASED; LOW BOUND; NONPARAMETRICS; SPECIES ABUNDANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

ANIMAL; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84927693389     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/biom.12200     Document Type: Article

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