Authors: | Christina D. Smith, Jeffrey S. Pontius | ||
Title: | Jackknife Estimator of Species Richness with S-PLUS | ||
Abstract: | An estimate of the number of species, S , usually called species richness by ecologists, in an area is one of the basic statistics used to ascertain biological diversity. Traditionally ecologists have used the number of species observed in a sample, S0 , to estimate S , realizing that S0 is a lower bound for S . One alternative to S0 is to use a nonparametric procedure such as jackknife resampling. For species richness, a closed form of the jackknife estimator is available. Typically statistical software contains only the traditional iterative form of the jackknife estimator. The purpose of this article is to propose an S-PLUS function for calculating the noniterative first order jackknife estimator of species richness and some associated plots and statistics. | ||
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Jackknife Estimator of Species Richness with S-PLUS
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10.18637/jss.v015.i03
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