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breakaway (version 3.0)

chao1: species richness lower bound

Description

This function implements the Chao1 diversity index.

Usage

chao1(data, print=TRUE, answers=FALSE)

Arguments

data
The sample frequency count table for the population of interest. See breakaway for details.
print
Logical: whether the results should be printed to screen.
answers
Logical: whether the function should return an argument.

Value

name
The ``name'' of the model.
est
The estimate of total (observed plus unobserved) diversity.
seest
The standard error in the diversity estimate.
ci
An asymmetric 95% confidence interval for diversity.

References

Chao, A. (1984). Nonparametric estimation of the number of classes in a population. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 4.

See Also

breakaway; apples; wlrm_untransformed; chao1_bc; chao_bunge