Epidemiology

Plant-Capture Methods for Estimating Population Size from Uncertain Plant Captures

Plant-capture is a variant of classical capture-recapture methods used to estimate the size of a population. In this method, decoys referred to as "plants" are introduced into the …

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Yiran Wang

Modeling and Bayesian Computations for Capture-Recapture Studies

Capture-recapture methods are often used for population size estimation, which plays a fundamental role in informing management decisions in ecology and epidemiology. In this …

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Yiran Wang
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Plant-Capture Methods for Estimating Population Size from Uncertain Plant Captures

A new framework for the plant-capture method to estimate population size by incorporating uncertainty in the plants' assessments and also other factors.

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Yiran Wang