The concepts of bias, precision and accuracy, and their use in testing the performance of species richness estimators, with a literature review of estimator performance

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Ecography

• Publication date

  2005-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Mathematics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/J.2005.0906-7590.04112.X
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