Estimating a Lower Bound of the Population Size in Capture-Recapture Experiments with Right Censored Data

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In this work, we present a new non-parametric approach for estimating a lower bound of the population size in capture-recapture experiments with right-censored observations, along with several applications in ecology and social sciences. ...

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Blasco-Moreno, A., Puig, P. (2024). Estimating a Lower Bound of the Population Size in Capture-Recapture Experiments with Right Censored Data. In: Einbeck, J., Maeng, H., Ogundimu, E., Perrakis, K. (eds) Developments in Statistical Modelling. IWSM 2024. Contributions to Statistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65723-8_26

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