On comparison of mixture models for closed population capture-recapture studies

Biometrics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 547-553

  Xuan Mao, Chang ^a   You, Na ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias decomposition; Boundary problems; Intrinsic bias

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS;

BETA-BINOMIAL MODELS; BIAS DECOMPOSITION; BOUNDARY PROBLEMS; CAPTURE-RECAPTURE; ESTIMATION BIAS; INTRINSIC BIAS; MIXTURE MODELING; POPULATION SIZES; TWO-POINT;

BIOMETRICS;

BIOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HETEROGENEITY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MODELING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIXTURE MODEL; MODEL; POPULATION SIZE; SIMULATION;

EID: 66949118142     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01065.x     Document Type: Article

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