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Models  Estimation of Distribution Overlap of Urn Models    •
Jerrad Hampton,    • Manuel E. Lladser   • Published: November
6, 2012   • DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042368   • Featured in
PLOS Collections   22 Jan 2014: Hampton J, Lladser ME (2014)
Correction: Estimation of Distribution Overlap of Urn Models.
PLoS ONE 9(1):
10.1371/annotation/cd4610af-3595-4ea2-9409-71770712f2a9. doi:
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correction   A classical problem in statistics is estimating the
expected coverage of a sample, which has had applications in
gene expression, microbial ecology, optimization, and even
numismatics. Here we consider a related extension of this
problem to random samples of two discrete distributions.
Specifically, we estimate what we call the dissimilarity
probability of a sample, i.e.,