Estimating the number of unseen species: How many words did Shakespeare know?

Bradley Efron, Ronald Thisted, 1976. Biometrika.

Estimates how many words Shakespeare knew but never used, from the counts of words he used once, twice and so on, with the models of Fisher and of Good and Toulmin.

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What it's used for here

The inductive-methods survey uses its unseen-species estimate to ask how large the manuscript's vocabulary really is.

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Cite it

Efron, B., & Thisted, R. (1976). Estimating the number of unseen species: How many words did Shakespeare know?. Biometrika. https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/63.3.435

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Efron, Bradley and Ronald Thisted. “Estimating the number of unseen species: How many words did Shakespeare know?.” Biometrika (1976). https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/63.3.435.