Some General Comparative Points on Chao's and Zelterman's Estimators of the Population Size

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 221-236

  Böhning, Dankmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capture recapture approach; Chao's lower bound estimator; Modified Zelterman estimator; Zelterman's estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954025036     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2009.00676.x     Document Type: Article

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