Notebooks.

Apr 1, 2022

Zelterman's Estimator of Population Size

Explores Zelterman's robust alternative to Chao1 — an estimator less sensitive to heterogeneity violations, tested on cultural and literary data.

Mar 31, 2022

Estimating Richness under Sampling without Replacement

Examines how standard unseen species estimators break down under sampling without replacement, and how to correct for it.

Mar 15, 2022

Demystifying Chao1 with Good-Turing

How Good-Turing frequency estimation underpins the Chao1 biodiversity estimator — and what that means for counting unseen cultural artefacts.