On estimating the probability of discovering a new species

DOI10.1214/aos/1176345651zbMath0477.62016OpenAlexW2085335854MaRDI QIDQ1161005

Anne Chao

Publication date: 1981

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176345651

zbMATH Keywords

predictoruniformly minimum variance unbiased estimator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Point estimation (62F10)

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