From the species problem to a general coverage problem via a new interpretation

DOI10.1214/aos/1176348672zbMath0778.62028OpenAlexW2061461176MaRDI QIDQ1193368

Shaw-Hwa Lo

Publication date: 27 September 1992

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176348672

zbMATH Keywords

iterative procedurebias reductionaveragingnew interpretationspecies problemestimating the volume of a convex setgeneral coverage problemmissile-coverage problemTuring- Good-Robbins estimator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Nonparametric statistical resampling methods (62G09)

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Statistics for phylogenetic trees ⋮ Unbiased estimation of the volume of a convex body ⋮ On estimating the conditional probability of discovering a new species ⋮ Sample complexity of the distinct elements problem ⋮ Bayesian estimator for the total number of distinct species when quadrat sampling is used ⋮ Good–Turing frequency estimation in a finite population

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