TAG LOSS AND THE PETERSEN MARK-RECAPTURE EXPERIMENT
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
SEBER, GAF; FELTON, R
署名单位：
University of Auckland
刊物名称：
BIOMETRIKA
ISSN/ISSBN：
0006-3444
DOI：
10.1093/biomet/68.1.211
发表日期：
1981
页码：
211219
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摘要：
A problem in the Petersen capture-mark-recapture experiment (Seber, 1973) is the possible loss of tags. The effect of such a loss on the usual estimate of population size and the estimate of its variance is investigated for both single and double tagging. When there is double tagging, a correction for tag loss can be made based on the numbers recaptured that retain 1 or both tags, provided independence of the tags can be assumed. Two cases are considered, distinguishable tags and nondistinguishable tags in which the latter have the same loss rates; new approximately unbiased estimates of population size and their variance estimates are introduced. These estimates are moderately robust to dependence between the 2 tags, and there is little to be gained by using nondistinguishable tags.