Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation of population size based on the counting distribution

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 721-737

  Böhning, Dankmar ^a,c   Schön, Dieter ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Completeness of disease registration; Counting distribution model; Missing species problem; Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator; Poisson mixture model; Problem of 'sleepers'; Zero truncation

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944575623     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2005.05324.x     Document Type: Article

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