Estimation of the number of people in a demonstration

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-26

  Yip, Paul S F ^a   Watson, Ray ^b   Chan, K S ^c   Lau, Eric H Y ^a   Chen, Feng ^d   Xu, Ying ^e   Xi, Liqun ^f   Cheung, Derek Y T ^b   Ip, Brian Y T ^g   Liu, Danping ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e SINGAPORE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Hong Kong Red Cross ^*  (Hong Kong)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Counting; Crowd estimation; Flow model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949888233     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: 1467842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2009.00562.x     Document Type: Article

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