Recursive Estimation in Capture-Recapture Methods

Sultan Qaboos University Journal for Science

Robert J. Elliott¹  Lakhdar Aggoun² 

[1] Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Canada.;Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, P. O.Box 36, Al-Khod 123, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman;

关键词: Capture Recapture, measure change, unnormalized conditional distributions, parameter estimation, Gaussian noise.;   

DOI  :  10.24200/squjs.vol3iss0pp67-75

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

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