Nonparametric Estimation of the Probability of Discovering a New Species

DOI10.2307/2289168MaRDI QIDQ3753292zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Murray K. Clayton, Edward W. Frees

Publication date 1987

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2289168

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic propertiesMonte Carlo studyU statisticsnonparametric maximum likelihood estimatorasymptotically normalasymptotically unbiaseduniformly minimum variance unbiasedprobability of discovering a new speciesStarr's conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20)

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