Nonparametric MLE under two closed capture-recapture models with heterogeneity

Biometrics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 639-649

  Norris III, James L ^a   Pollock, Kenneth H ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Mixture model; Population size

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

CAPTURE PROBABILITIES; CAPTURE-RECAPTURE MODELS; EM ALGORITHMS; HETEROGENEITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; MIXTURE MODELING; MODELING RESULTS; NONPARAMETRIC MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATIONS; NONPARAMETRICS; POPULATION SIZES;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; POPULATION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CAPTURE-RECAPTURE MODEL; HETEROGENEITY; NONPARAMETRIC MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 0029660296     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2532902     Document Type: Article

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