On identifiability in capture-recapture models

Biometrics

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 934-936

  Holzmann, Hajo ^a   Munk, Axel ^a   Zucchini, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Institut für Statistik und Ökonometrie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abundance estimation; Beta mixture; Capture recapture; Finite mixture; Heterogeneity; Identifiability; Uniform mixture

Indexed keywords

MIXING;

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; BETA MIXTURE; CAPTURE-RECAPTURE; CAPTURE-RECAPTURE MODELS; FINITE MIXTURES; HETEROGENEITY; IDENTIFIABILITY; MIXING DISTRIBUTIONS; MIXTURE MODELING; UNIFORM MIXTURES;

BIOMETRICS;

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; CAPTURE METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33748792795     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2006.00637_1.x     Document Type: Article

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