Analysing capture-recapture data when some variables of heterogeneous catchability are not collected or asked in all registrations

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1069-1089

  Zwane, Eugene N ^a,b   van der Heijden, Peter G M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Covariates; EM algorithm; Log linear models; Population size estimation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAPTURE RECAPTURE METHOD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; LOGLINEAR MODEL; MATERNAL AGE; MORBIDITY; NETHERLANDS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIRTH RATE; BIRTH WEIGHT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 33847097281     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2577     Document Type: Article

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