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How Many Fish are in the Pond?
Author(s) -
Johnson Roger W.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.1996.tb00882.x
Subject(s) - fish <actinopterygii> , macro , mark and recapture , statistics , population , fishery , econometrics , computer science , geography , ecology , mathematics , biology , demography , sociology , programming language
Summary This article describes the capture‐recapture method of estimating the size of an animal population and illustrates it with a “hands‐on” classroom activity. Properties of the estimate, such as its variability, may be explored with the Minitab macro provided.