Linear estimation of the probability of discovering a new species

DOI10.1214/aos/1176344684zbMath0405.62025OpenAlexW2072536072MaRDI QIDQ1257309

Norman Starr

Publication date: 1979

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176344684

zbMATH Keywords

Conditional ProbabilityDiscovering New SpeciesLinear EstimationN-Stage SamplePrediction of Unobservable Random VariableUnbiased Predictor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Point estimation (62F10)

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