Table 8. Three real datasets are used as true assemblages for simulation study, that including vascular plant species in the southern Appalachians (Miller & Wiegert, 1989), butterfly survey data in the Malayan (Fisher, Corbet & Williams, 1943), and ground-dwelling invertebrate species collected from northwest Tasmania (Bonham, Mesibov & Bashford, 2002). The first 15 frequency counts f_k are shown in the table for each data set.

Vascular plant species frequency counts
k	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	≥15
f k	61	35	18	12	15	4	8	4	5	5	1	2	1	2	15
Butterfly species frequency counts
k	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	≥15
f k	118	74	44	24	29	22	20	19	20	15	12	14	6	12	191
Ground-dwelling invertebrate species frequency counts
k	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	≥15
f k	15	8	5	3	5	5	3	3	4	2	3	1	3	1	24