I’m reading the slides from a lecture I had last week. They make no sense. To estimate the number of species in a population, we divide the population in a number of classes. The classes themselves should be defined consistently, but the classes of two populations when share some classes and have other unique to them. The number of classes we define is S, and si is a sample of S. We then use a function of time to calculate S.
Wait, so, what’s the population size?
Reading fiction would be a luxury to me. The closest I can come to it is Steve Jones.
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