Inference on population size in binomial detectability models
二项可探测性模型中的种群规模推断
Many models for biological populations, including simple mark-recapture models and distance sampling models, involve a binomially distributed number, n, of observations x1, …, xn on members of a population of size N. Two popular estimators of (N, θ), where θ is a vector parameter, are the maximum likelihood estimator and the conditional maximum likelihood estimator based on the conditional distribution of x1, …, xn given n. We derive the large-N asymptotic distributions of…