Improved log-linear model estimators of abundance in capture-recapture experiments

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 555-572

  Rivest, Louis Paul ^a   Lévesque, Tina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Spielo Gaming International   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Generalized linear model; Multinomial distribution; Petersen estimator; Removal model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035527926     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3316007     Document Type: Article

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