A note on sequential estimation of the size of a population under a general loss function

DOI10.1016/S0167-7152(99)00152-2zbMath0969.62052MaRDI QIDQ1974083

Mo-Suk Chow, Zhi-Dong Bai

Publication date: 4 October 2001

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

loss functionmaximum likelihood estimatorsequential samplingcapture-recapturerisk function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05) Admissibility in statistical decision theory (62C15) Sequential estimation (62L12)

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