A covariate adjustment for zero-truncated approaches to estimating the size of hidden and elusive populations

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 595-610

  Böhning, Dankmar ^a   van der Heijden, Peter G M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Elusive population; Estimation under model misspecification; Population size estimation; Truncated Poisson and binomial likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954017360     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOAS214     Document Type: Review

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