Asymptotic properties of an optimal estimating function approach to the analysis of mark recapture data

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 575-595

  Huggins, Richard M ^a   Chao, Anne ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Capture recapture experiment; Heterogeneous capture probabilities; Sample coverage

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244433567     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-120003135     Document Type: Article

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