A note on nonparametric inference for capture-recapture experiments with heterogeneous capture probabilities

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 843-853

  Muggins, Richard M ^a   Yip, Paul S F ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bayes method; Capture recapture; Horvitz Thompson estimator; Logistic model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035603280     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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