Abstract:Species-sampling" problems (SSPs) refer to a broad class of statistical problems that, given an observable sample from an unknown population of individuals belonging to some species, call for estimating features of the unknown species composition of additional unobservable samples from the same population. Among SSPs, the problems of estimating coverage probabilities, the number of unseen species and coverages of prevalences have emerged over the past three decades for being the objects of numerous studies, bo… Show more
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