By using a model of Hill for sampling from a finite population, the posterior moments of the number of species in the population and the posterior probability of finding a new species are obtained. Results are based on a negative binomial prior distribution on the number of species in the population and are appropriate for sampling both with and without replacement.
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Bruce M. Hill (1979) studied this question.
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