A simple variance formula for population size estimators by conditioning

Statistical Methodology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 410-423

  Böhning, Dankmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Horvitz Thompson estimator; Population size; Variance estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 49849087663     PISSN: 15723127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stamet.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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