[Vegan-commits] r2919 - pkg/vegan/inst

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Author: jarioksa
Date: 2014-12-12 09:59:36 +0100 (Fri, 12 Dec 2014)
New Revision: 2919

Modified:
   pkg/vegan/inst/NEWS.Rd
Log:
NEWS about new variance estimator for Chao in estimateR

Modified: pkg/vegan/inst/NEWS.Rd
===================================================================
--- pkg/vegan/inst/NEWS.Rd	2014-12-12 08:42:58 UTC (rev 2918)
+++ pkg/vegan/inst/NEWS.Rd	2014-12-12 08:59:36 UTC (rev 2919)
@@ -26,9 +26,18 @@
   \subsection{NEW FEATURES}{
     \itemize{
 
-      \item \code{linestack} accepts now expressions (such as
-      mathematical notation) as labels.
+      \item \code{estimateR} uses a more exact variance formula for
+      bias-corrected Chao estimate of extrapolated number of
+      species. The new formula may be unpublished, but it was derived
+      following the guidelines of Chiu, Wang, Walther & Chao,
+      \emph{Biometrics} 70, 671--682 (2014),
+      \href{http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/biom.12200/suppinfo}{online
+      supplementary material}.
 
+      \item \code{linestack} accepts now expressions as labels. This
+      allows using mathematical symbols and formula given as
+      mathematical expressions.
+
     }
   } % new features