title: Interval estimation for mark-recapture studies of closed populations.
abstract: Textbooks continue to recommend the use of an asymptotic normal distribution to provide an interval estimate for the unknown size, N, of a closed population studied by a mark-recapture experiment or multiple-record system. A likelihood interval approach is proposed and its implementation demonstrated for a range of models for such studies, including all main effect and interaction models for incomplete contingency tables.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Cormack
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008404:Massachusetts; D008433:Mathematics; D015233:Models, Statistical; D016012:Poisson Distribution; D011156:Population Density; D011336:Probability