A Note on Capture-Recapture Estimation

DOI10.2307/2530505zbMath0437.62100OpenAlexW2315923243MaRDI QIDQ3878610

D. Ratcliff, J. N. Darroch

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2530505

zbMATH Keywords

variancebiasmaximum likelihood estimatecapture-recapture estimationprobability of unobserved outcomesRobbins estimate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Point estimation (62F10)

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