Maximum‐likelihood estimation for the removal method

DOI10.2307/3315590zbMath0801.62092OpenAlexW1973882217MaRDI QIDQ4311485

Edward J. Bedrick

Publication date: 10 November 1994

Published in: Canadian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3315590

zbMATH Keywords

Laplace transformnecessary and sufficient conditionsestimation of population sizeprofile log-likelihood functionvariation-diminishing propertyremoval methodexistence of a finite maximum-likelihood estimatorlikelihood-ratio confidence regionsmall-sample coverage properties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Point estimation (62F10) Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05)

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• Compound multinomial likelihood functions are unimodal: Proof of a conjecture of I. J. Good
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• A New Method for Estimating Population Size from Removal Data
• A MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF ANIMAL TRAPPING
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