The Petersen - Lincoln estimator and its extension to estimate the size of a shared population

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 957-970

  Chao, Anne ^a   Pan, H Y ^b   Chiang, Shu Chuan ^c,d,e  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e Sunrise Clinic   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Correlation bias; Dependence; Dual system estimator; Heterogeneity; Mark recapture

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE-RECAPTURE; CATEGORICAL DATA; CORRELATION BIAS; DEPENDENCE; DUAL SYSTEM; DUAL-SYSTEM ESTIMATOR; HETEROGENEITY; MARK-RECAPTURE; PETERSEN; RELEASE EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 57649166839     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200810482     Document Type: Article

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