A note on the difficulties associated with the analysis of capture-recapture experiments with heterogeneous capture probabilities

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 147-152

  Huggins, Richard ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capture recapture experiment; Heterogeneous capture probabilities; Identifiability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013529514     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(00)00233-9     Document Type: Article

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