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Population Size Estimation with Truncated Data: A Survey

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Bayesian Analysis in Statistics and Econometrics

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Statistics ((LNS,volume 75))

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We review the literature for the problem of estimating the size, N, of a finite population. Each member of the population has associated with it a value of a random variable X, and X 1, …, X N are independent and identically distributed with density f(x;θ), θ being unknown. Only those members of the population with X-values in some restricted subset R of the sample space can be observed. The problems discussed here are more closely related to truncated sampling than to traditional population size estimation.

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  1. The Ohio State University, USA

    Saul Blumenthal

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  1. Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210-1247, USA

    Prem K. Goel

  2. Economic Analysis Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, 8 Mile Mysole Road, R.V. College — P.O., Bangalore, 560059, India

    N. Sreenivas Iyengar

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Blumenthal, S. (1992). Population Size Estimation with Truncated Data: A Survey. In: Goel, P.K., Iyengar, N.S. (eds) Bayesian Analysis in Statistics and Econometrics. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 75. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2944-5_24

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