Global Online Seminar #34 - What is the Probability of Discovering a New Species?
Channel: A. Townsend Peterson
Date: 2017-09-06

Michael Grabchak, Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics 
University of North Carolina, Charlotte

His summary of the talk: "In this talk we discuss two related problems. First, we discuss how to use Turing's formula to estimate the probability of seeing a new species. In particular, we give several useful properties of this estimator. Second, we turn to the question of comparing the diversities of two ecosystems. Toward this end, we discuss several diversity indices and how to estimate them."