Rediscovery of Good-Turing estimators via Bayesian nonparametrics

DOI10.1111/biom.12366zbMath1393.62062arXiv1401.0303OpenAlexW1836729566WikidataQ35725181 ScholiaQ35725181MaRDI QIDQ2805189

Bernardo Nipoti, Stefano Favaro, Yee Whye Teh

Publication date: 10 May 2016

Published in: Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0303

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian nonparametricssmoothing techniquecredible intervalsasymptotic equivalencetwo parameter Poisson-Dirichlet priordiscovery probabilityexpressed sequence tagsGood-Turing estimatorGood-Toulmin estimator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions (62G15) Protein sequences, DNA sequences (92D20)

Related Items (3)

Generalized Good-Turing Improves Missing Mass Estimation ⋮ Perfect sampling of the posterior in the hierarchical Pitman-Yor process ⋮ Asymptotic properties of Turing's formula in relative error

Cites Work

• Conditional formulae for Gibbs-type exchangeable random partitions
• Efficiently sampling nested Archimedean copulas
• Notes on the occupancy problem with infinitely many boxes: general asymptotics and power laws
• A triptych of discrete distributions related to the stable law
• Exchangeable and partially exchangeable random partitions
• THE NUMBER OF NEW SPECIES, AND THE INCREASE IN POPULATION COVERAGE, WHEN A SAMPLE IS INCREASED
• Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation of the Probability of Discovering New Species
• Predicting the Conditional Probability of Discovering a New Class
• A New Estimator of the Discovery Probability
• THE POPULATION FREQUENCIES OF SPECIES AND THE ESTIMATION OF POPULATION PARAMETERS

This page was built for publication: Rediscovery of Good-Turing estimators via Bayesian nonparametrics