Open Conference Systems, ITACOSM 2019 - Survey and Data Science

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Capture-recapture for population size estimation based upon zero-truncated count distributions with one-inflation
Dankmar Boehning

Building: Learning Center Morgagni
Room: Aula 210
Date: 2019-06-07 12:00 PM – 01:30 PM
Last modified: 2019-05-06

Abstract


For zero-truncated count data, as they typically arise in capture-recapture modelling, we consider modelling under one-inflation. This is motivated by several data sets including police data on drink-driving in Britain which shows high one-inflation.   We show that inference for an arbitrary count density with one-inflation  can be equivalently based upon the associated zero-one truncated count density. This simplifies inference considerably including maximum likelihood estimation and likelihood ratio testing.  Illustrations are provided for several data sets inclduing the drink-driving example.


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