A new mixture model for capture heterogeneity

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

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 433-446

  Morgan, B J T ^a   Ridout, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beta binomial; Capture recapture; Logistic normal binomial; Mixture of binomials; Population size estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 47649089226     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2008.00620.x     Document Type: Article

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