A Penalized Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Approach to Species Richness Estimation
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Statistical Association
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0162-1459,1537-274X
DOI: 10.1198/016214504000002005