fisher.alpha {preseqR} | R Documentation |
fisher.alpha
estimates the parameter alpha in the logseries estimator by
Fisher, R. A., et al. (1943) based on an initial sample.
fisher.alpha(n)
n |
A two-column matrix.
The first column is the frequency |
A double, the estimated value of the parameter alpha
Chao Deng
Fisher, R., Corbet, A., & Williams, C. (1943). The Relation Between the Number of Species and the Number of Individuals in a Random Sample of an Animal Population. Journal of Animal Ecology, 12(1), 42-58. doi:10.2307/1411
## load library
library(preseqR)
## import data
data(WillButterfly)
## estimating alpha
fisher.alpha <- fisher.alpha(WillButterfly)