On the rare species of a population
Journal
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
Date Issued
December 1995
Author(s)
DOI
10.1016/0378-3758(95)00019-6
Abstract
Based on a search of size n in a population, a predictor is proposed for the total probability of observing a rare species in additional searches of size N, that has the same expectation with it. The predictor is based on one additional search as in Robbins (Ann. Math. Statist. (1968) 256-257) and its mean squared error is computed in order to determine its accuracy or construct confidence intervals.
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