Estimation of a population size through capture-mark-recapture method: A comparison of various point and interval estimators

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 335-354

  Yang, Xing ^a   Pal, Nabendu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Coverage probability; Hypergeometric distribution; MSE; Parametric bootstrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649156943     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650802635165     Document Type: Article

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