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Interval estimation for mark-recapture studies of closed populations
1Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
Biometrics
|June 1, 1992
Abstract:
Textbooks continue to recommend the use of an asymptotic normal distribution to provide an interval estimate for the unknown size, N, of a closed population studied by a mark-recapture experiment or multiple-record system. A likelihood interval approach is proposed and its implementation demonstrated for a range of models for such studies, including all main effect and interaction models for incomplete contingency tables.