Centre sampling for estimating elusive population size

The estimation of the size of an elusive population is a problem frequently addressed in many fiels of applications. In the paper a sampling strategy for the estimation of the size is proposed, the properties of the estimator are evaluated in a design-based approach. The estimator is unbiased, admis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Monica Pratesi, Emilia Rocco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2007-10-01
Series:Statistica
Online Access:http://rivista-statistica.unibo.it/article/view/438