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Estimating the Population Size for Capture-Recapture Data with Unequal Catchability

Anne Chao, 1987. Biometrics.

Proposes a way to estimate, with a confidence interval, how many animals a closed population holds, using capture-recapture data in which individuals differ in how likely they are to be caught.

MYS08HTEHX052AX · mystery · click to copyMVoynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.2307/2531532Checked against the original0

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The inductive-methods survey proposes treating independent transliterations as captures, to estimate how many uncertain readings all of them miss.

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Chao, A. (1987). Estimating the Population Size for Capture-Recapture Data with Unequal Catchability. Biometrics. https://doi.org/10.2307/2531532
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