An application of profile-likelihood based confidence interval to capture-recapture estimators

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 131-140

  Evans, Marc A ^a   Kim, Hag Min ^b   O'Brien, Timothy E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Capture recapture; Closed population; Confidence interval; Monte Carlo simulation; Profile likelihood; Small sample

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; CAPTURE-RECAPTURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; WALD CONFIDENCE INTERVAL;

EID: 0030451970     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1400565     Document Type: Article

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