Petersen Estimator, Chapman Adjustment, List Effects, and Heterogeneity

作者：Mao, Chang Xuan^*; Huang, Ruochen; Zhang, Sijia

来源：Biometrics, 2017, 73(1): 167-173.

DOI：10.1111/biom.12553

• Bias correction
• Capture-recapture
• Nonidentifiability

We use a nonparametric mixture model for the purpose of estimating the size of a population from multiple lists in which both the individual effects and list effects are allowed to vary. We propose a lower bound of the population size that admits an analytic expression. The lower bound can be estimated without the necessity of model-fitting. The asymptotical normality of the estimator is established. Both the estimator itself and that for the estimable bound of its variance are adjusted. These adjusted versions are shown to be unbiased in the limit. Simulation experiments are performed to assess the proposed approach and real applications are studied.

• 出版日期2017-3
• 单位上海财经大学