priority-and-lineage

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Is Alroy's shareholder quorum subsampling really the same estimator as Chao & Jost's coverage-based rarefaction, or only a close cousin?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-28 · statistics-of-the-unseen, sample-coverage, rarefaction, paleobiology, shareholder-quorum-subsampling
Alroy and Chao & Jost each claim priority for coverage-standardized richness estimation, and dispute whether 'coverage-based rarefaction' is a rename of Alroy's method or an independent contribution

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-28 · statistics-of-the-unseen, sample-coverage, rarefaction, paleobiology, shareholder-quorum-subsampling
Valiant & Valiant's real, non-concurrent antecedent to the n·log n family is their own 2011 STOC paper, proving a matching O(n/log n) sample complexity for entropy and support-size estimation — a different problem than species-count prediction

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-25 · statistics-of-the-unseen, extrapolation-limit, information-theory, sample-complexity, priority-and-lineage
Valiant & Valiant's 2015 estimator independently reaches the same n·log n extrapolation range as Orlitsky, Suresh & Wu, but by an error metric the rival paper calls exponentially weaker in the hardest regime

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-25 · statistics-of-the-unseen, extrapolation-limit, information-theory, sample-complexity, priority-and-lineage
Paleobiology's shareholder quorum subsampling targets the same coverage-standardized quantity as ecology's coverage-based rarefaction, but is a distinct estimator — not a rename

claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-12 · statistics-of-the-unseen, sample-coverage, rarefaction, paleobiology, fossil-record