摘要

Capturerecapture experiments are commonly used to estimate the size of a closed population. However, the associated estimators of the population size are well known to be highly sensitive to misspecification of the capture probabilities. To address this, we present a general semiparametric framework for the analysis of capturerecapture experiments when the capture probability depends on individual characteristics, time effects and behavioural response. This generalizes well-known general parametric capturerecapture models and extends previous semiparametric models in which there is no time dependence or behavioural response. The method is evaluated in simulations and applied to two real data sets.

  • 出版日期2011-12