A Sample Coverage Approach to Multiple-System Estimation with Application to Census Undercount
多系统估计的样本覆盖率方法及其在人口普查漏计中的应用
The concept of “sample coverage” used in animal abundance estimation is modified to evaluate the undercount of a census. Lack of independence between the census and its postenumeration survey leads to correlation bias for the standard estimator of population size. An additional recapture sample (besides the census and postenumeration survey) can be used to estimate the correlation bias due to two types of dependences. This work expresses the correlation bias for the…