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. 2008 Oct 30;8:299. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-299

Table 5.

Sample sizes needed for 95% probability to find all sequence copies

xobs 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
n 5 8 11 14 17 20 23 26 28

Sample sizes (n) needed for P (x = xobs) > 0.95 calculated from a discrete uniform prior of x on {1, 2, . . ., 10} where xobs correspond to the observed number of sequence variants and n to the number of sampled PCR fragments.