Robust estimation in truncated discrete distributions with application to capture-recapture experiments

Explicit estimates from capture-recapture data with both death and immigration-stochastic model

G. M. Jolly · Biometrika · 1965 · 2.4K citations

Natural Resources, Biostatistics, Epidemiology +15

Robust Estimation of Population Size When Capture Probabilities Vary Among Animals

Kenneth P. Burnham, W. Scott Overton · Ecology · 1979 · 901 citations

Life Sciences, Biostatistics, Ecology +17

Estimating the number of unseen species: How many words did Shakespeare know?

Bradley Efron, Ronald A. Thisted · Biometrika · 1976 · 451 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Linguistics +17

The Folded Normal Distribution

Fred C. Leone, L.S. Nelson, R. B. Nottingham · Technometrics · 1961 · 416 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Probability Theory +3

Discrete Distributions.

Leo Katz, Norman L. Johnson, Samuel Kotz · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1970 · 375 citations