The Sample Size-Richness Relation: A Comment on Plog and Hegmon
- 1 October 1997
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 62 (4) , 713-716
- https://doi.org/10.2307/281888
Abstract
Plog and Hegmon (1993) focus on my research (Leonard 1989) on Black Mesa, Arizona, faunal assemblages as part of a broader critique of the work of a number of researchers who consider the effects of sample size on assemblage richness values. I suggest that their critique is problematic for a number of reasons, primarily statistical, but also because they do not provide an alternative hypothesis for the observed pattern.Keywords
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