Equivalence of truncated count mixture distributions and mixtures of truncated count distributions

Biometrics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1207-1215

  Böhning, Dankmar ^a   Kuhnert, Ronny ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Mixture of truncated count densities; Population size problem; Truncated mixture of count densities

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MIXING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

CAPTURE-RECAPTURE; COUNT DATA MODELING; COUNT DATUM; HORVITZ-THOMPSON ESTIMATOR; MIXING DISTRIBUTIONS; MIXTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; MIXTURE OF TRUNCATED COUNT DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE PROBLEM; POPULATION SIZES; TRUNCATED MIXTURE OF COUNT DENSITY;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; POISSON RATIO; POPULATION SIZE;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 33845504161     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2006.00565.x     Document Type: Article

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