Estimating population size from multiple recapture experiments

N. G. Becker and C. C. Heyde

Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 1990, vol. 36, issue 1, 77-83

Abstract: The size of a closed population is to be estimated using data from a multiple recapture study in either continuous or discrete time. Here the use of maximum likelihood raises computational problems. However, a family of martingale estimating functions related to the score function is shown to produce convenient simple estimators with good asymptotic efficiency relative to the maximum likelihood estimator.

Keywords: population; size; capture-recapture; estimating; function; optimal; estimation; quasi-likelihood; martingale; stochastic; integral (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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