Low-risk population size estimates in the presence of capture heterogeneity
捕获异质性下的低风险总体规模估计
Population estimation methods are used for estimating the size of a population from samples of individuals. In many applications, the probability of being observed in the sample varies across individuals, resulting in sampling bias. We show that in this setting, estimators of the population size have high and sometimes infinite risk, leading to large uncertainty in the population size. As an alternative, we propose estimating the population of individuals with observation…