Mixture models for capture-recapture count data

Statistical Methods and Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-43

  Böhning, Dankmar ^a   Dietz, Ekkehart ^a   Kuhnert, Ronny ^a   Schön, Dieter ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Counting Distribution Model; Finite mixture models; Truncated count distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 49849089933     PISSN: 16182510     EISSN: 1613981X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02511573     Document Type: Article

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