Capture-recapture methods for estimating the size of a population: Dealing with variable capture probabilities

Statistics in Action: A Canadian Outlook

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 289-304

  Rivest, Louis Paul ^a   Baillargeon, Sophie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL POPULATIONS; CAPTURE PROBABILITIES; CAPTURE-RECAPTURE METHOD; DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; LARGE GROUPS; LARGE MAMMALS; PROTECTIVE MEASURES; STATISTICAL MODELING;

MAMMALS;

EID: 85011359902     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b16597     Document Type: Chapter

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