A Multinomial Bayesian Approach to the Estimation of Population and Vocabulary Size
估计总体与词汇规模的多项分布贝叶斯方法
We approach estimation of the size of a population or a vocabulary through a Bayesian analysis of the multinomial distribution. We view the sample as being generated from such a distribution with an unknown number of cells and unknown cell probabilities, and develop a Bayesian procedure to estimate the number of cells and the coverage of the sample. The prior distribution of the number of cells is arbitrary. Given that number, the cell probabilities are assumed to follow a…