ERC Consolidator Grant · 2018
Consider a population of individuals belonging to different species with unknown proportions. Given an initial (observable) random sample from the population, how do we estimate the number of species in the population, or the probability of discovering a new species in one additional sample, or the number of hitherto unseen species that would be observed in additional unobservable samples? These are archetypal examples of a broad class of statistical problems referred to as species sampling problems (SSP), namely: statistical problems in which the objects of inference are functionals involving the unknown species proportions and/or the species frequency counts induced by observable and…
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