Assessing the human condition: capture-recapture techniques

Capture-recapture method for assessing publication bias

BACKGROUND Publication bias is an important factor that may result in selection bias and lead to overestimation of the intervention effect. In this study, the focus was on using capture-recapture method as a statistical procedure which may possibly be a practical means for measuring the amount of publication bias. METHODS A systematic review was conducted to estimate the duration of protectio...

Assessing tiger population dynamics using photographic capture-recapture sampling.

Although wide-ranging, elusive, large carnivore species, such as the tiger, are of scientific and conservation interest, rigorous inferences about their population dynamics are scarce because of methodological problems of sampling populations at the required spatial and temporal scales. We report the application of a rigorous, noninvasive method for assessing tiger population dynamics to test m...

Capture–recapture sampling designs

Capture-recapture and Removal Experiments

The dependence of animal capture probabilities on auxiliary variables is an important practical problem which has not been considered when developing the statistical methodology of population estimation for capture-recapture and removal experiments. In this paper the linear logistic binary regression model is used to relate the probability of capture to continuous auxiliary variables. The auxil...

Constant-parameter capture-recapture models.

Jolly (1982, Biometrics 38, 301-321) presented modifications of the Jolly-Seber model for capture-recapture data, which assume constant survival and/or capture rates. Where appropriate, because of the reduced number of parameters, these models lead to more efficient estimators than the Jolly-Seber model. The tests to compare models given by Jolly do not make complete use of the data, and we pre...