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Exact Maximum Likelihood Estimate of a Finite Population Size
Capture/Recapture Sequential Sample Data
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2009
Abstract
Using data obtained by the general capture/recapture sequential sampling process, an exact analytical expression for the maximum likelihood (ML) estimate of the population size, N, is introduced. As a consequence, it is shown that bounded likelihood functions have at most two maxima. For the simple one-by-one case the ML estimate is unique.
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- Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , April 1987 , pp. 225 - 236
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