Estimation is the process of using sample data to provide a single best value for a parameter (such as a mean, proportion, correlation, or effect size), or to provide a range of values in the form of a confidence interval.
Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) are those areas that: (1) include a city of at least 50,000 population, or (2) include a Census Bureau-defined urbanized area (of at least 50,000 population) with a total metropolitan population of at least 100,000 (75,000 in New England).
Statistical disclosure limitation techniques are used to prepare microdata files for release, included are perturbation techniques and coarsening techniques.
EstimateS 8.0.0 features Chao's Sørensen and Jaccard similarity estimators (Ecology Letters 8:148-159, 2005), an option for individual randomization export, usability improvements, and a new 4D Engine.
Between 1997 and November, 2006, EstimateS was downloaded moret than 20,000 times by users in more than 100 countries around the globe.
All richness estimators and diversity indices are computed for every level of sample accumulation, averaged over resamplings.