#statistics — Epstein Revealed

Detecting Missing Documents With a World War II Statistical Method

TLDR A World War II-era statistical method for estimating how many items exist based on the serial numbers you have seen (known as the German Tank Problem) is...

March 10, 2026 6 min read

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Chao1 Species Richness

TLDR The Chao1 estimator — a statistical method originally designed to estimate the total number of species in an ecosystem, applied here to estimate total...

March 10, 2026 5 min read