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From: ANSC2%UMDC@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (Estelle Russek-Cohen)
Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio
Subject: Re: a program called capture
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Date: 16 Feb 91 12:43:28 GMT
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i wrote a review on capture ages ago. it was written at los alamos ages
ago. i don't have the paperback book that describes the program but it
was several hundred pages long. i believe it had a ntis number. i also
remember the first author to be gary white. the review was in the journal
of wildlife management, sometime before 1985.
what capture has as a distinguishing feature is the ability to model
data where each member of the population has its own probability of
capture so females could be more susceptible than males, etc. it also
constructed maximum likelihood estimates of the population size based
on a suitable census method. one could simulate data within capture
using one model and actually estimate population sizes using a different
model. thus one could check for robustness of the procedure.
hope this info helps.
      estelle russek-cohen