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Biometrika 1973 60(3):499-508; doi:10.1093/biomet/60.3.499
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A numerical comparison between sequential tagging and sequential recapture

P. R. FREEMAN

University College London

This paper investigates by means of numerical solutions two experimental techniques, tagging and recapture, for sequential estimation of the size of a population. It is found that the choice between them depends critically on assumptions made about the sampling cost when sampling without replacement. If this is a constant amount per item sampled, then recapture is clearly preferable to tagging, while if it increases as the number of items remaining to be sampled diminishes then the reverse is true.

Key Words: Population size • Tagging • Capture-recapture • Sequential estimation • Preposterior analysis • Dynamio programming • Economics of sampling


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