Effect of plant-capture in a capture-recapture experiment

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2025-2038

  Yip, Paul S F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Capture recapture experiment; Estimating function; Plant capture; Population size; Weight function; Zero mean martingale

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006592240     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929608831818     Document Type: Article

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