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Deficiency of parameter-redundant models
1 School of Mathematics and Statistics, University College, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra ACT 2600, Australiae-catchpole{at}adfa.edu.au 2 Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK.b.j.t.morgan{at}ukc.ac.uk
Tools are established for evaluating the deficiency of parameter-redundant models.Examples are provided from the areas of mark-recovery and capture-recapture studies.
Key Words: Capture-recapture; Deficiency; Derivative matrix; Mark-recovery; Parameter redundancy
Received March 2000. Revised November 2000