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It is often easier to understand how abundance estimation methods work if we can check our estimates against the true population after estimating abundance, to see how well we did. This is impractical with real populations, so we will be using examples with artificial populations for illustration.
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Borchers, D.L., Buckland, S.T., Zucchini, W. (2002). Using likelihood for estimation. In: Estimating Animal Abundance. Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3708-5_2
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