Open AccessRecursive Estimation in Capture-Recapture Methods
Author(s) -
Lakhdar Aggoun,
Robert J. Elliott
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
maǧallaẗ ǧāmiʿaẗ al-sulṭān qābūs li-l-ʿulūm/sultan qaboos university journal for science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2414-536X
pISSN - 2308-3921
DOI - 10.24200/squjs.vol3iss0pp67-75
Subject(s) - mark and recapture , statistics , population , estimation , population size , sample (material) , sample size determination , measure (data warehouse) , mathematics , computer science , econometrics , demography , data mining , physics , management , sociology , economics , thermodynamics
An important problem in statistical ecology is how to determine the size of an animal population. The best known technique is the capture-recapture technique. A random sample of individuals is captured, tagged in some way and released back into the population. After allowing time for the marked and unmarked individuals to mix sufficiently, a second random sample is taken and the marked ones are observed. Using measure change techniques, we estimate recursively conditional distributions of various quantities.