Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jun 28, 2026

Holistic Facial Composite Creation and Subsequent Video Line-up Eyewitness Identification Paradigm
Published on: December 24, 2015
Estimating the World Trade Center tower population on September 11, 2001: a capture-recapture approach
1RTI International, 230 W Monroe St, Suite 2100, Chicago, IL 60606, USA. jmurphy@rti.org
Abstract:
I applied the capture-recapture method to estimate the World Trade Center tower population at the time of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Available lists helped identify 8965 survivors and 2152 confirmed casualties. The capture-recapture model suggested that an additional 4435 survivors were present, putting the total count of all present at 15,552 (95% confidence interval=15,216, 15,897). An accurate estimate represents the potential number at risk for trauma as a result of direct exposure to the events of the day.
More Related Videos
Related Concept Videos
What are Populations and Communities?
Sample Proportion and Population Proportion
Estimating Population Mean with Unknown Standard Deviation
William S. Gosset (1876–1937) of the Guinness...
Estimating Population Mean with Known Standard Deviation
The confidence interval estimate will have the form as follows:
(point estimate - error bound, point estimate + error bound)
The...
Testing a Claim about Population Proportion
There are two methods of testing a claim about a population proportion: (1) Using the sample proportion from the data where a binomial distribution is approximated to the normal distribution and (2) Using the binomial probabilities calculated from the data.
The first method uses normal distribution as an approximation to the binomial distribution. The requirements are as follows: sample size is large...
Estimating Population Standard Deviation

