A Penalized Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Approach to Species Richness Estimation

DOI10.1198/016214504000002005zbMath1117.62439MaRDI QIDQ5754868

Bruce G. Lindsay, Ji-Ping Wang

Publication date: 20 August 2007

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1198/016214504000002005

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62-XX: Statistics

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