title: The performance of mixture models in heterogeneous closed population capture-recapture.
abstract: Dorazio and Royle (2003, Biometrics 59, 351-364) investigated the behavior of three mixture models for closed population capture-recapture analysis in the presence of individual heterogeneity of capture probability. Their simulations were from the beta-binomial distribution, with analyses from the beta-binomial, the logit-normal, and the finite mixture (latent class) models. In this response, simulations from many different distributions give a broader picture of the relative value of the beta-binomial and the finite mixture models, and provide some preliminary insights into the situations in which these models are useful.
authors.affiliation: School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand. shirley@mcs.vuw.ac.nz
authors.forename: Shirley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pledger
mesh_terms: D000823:Animal Identification Systems; D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D034621:Hares; D008954:Models, Biological; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011156:Population Density; D011817:Rabbits