An extension of the Lin-Yip estimator for continous-time capture studies

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 574-585

  Wang, Yan ^a   Yip, Paul S F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Animal abundance; Capture recapture experiment; Counting process; Heterogeneous capturability; Martingale; Population size estimation

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; SIMULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 5444271673     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/108571102771     Document Type: Article

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