On Bayesian inference about extinction
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On Bayesian inference about extinction.
Alroy (1) provides Bayesian estimates of the number of recent extinctions among reptiles and amphibians based on their sighting records. This involved calculating posterior extinction probabilities for individual species. This calculation is only cursorily described. The purpose of this comment is to provide an expression for this posterior probability and to raise two issues with the applicati...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1525317113