Abstract
A common assumption in capture-recapture modelling is one of behavioral independence, whereby samples from the population are assumed to be entirely unrelated. For a two sample study this implies capture at the first sample has no effect on capture at the second. Such an assumption clearly is not tenable in many applications. In this manuscript we use categorical covariables to partition the population and to allow the introduction of additional demographic information, with the view to relaxing the behavioral independence assumption. The primary issue considered is the estimation of population size, which we assume to be constant over the duration of the study.
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O’Connell, M., Pollock, K.H. (1992). Partitioned Capture-Recapture Models for Population Estimation. In: McCullough, D.R., Barrett, R.H. (eds) Wildlife 2001: Populations. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2868-1_7
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