Abundance estimation with a categorical covariate subject to missing in continuous-time capture-recapture studies

• Published in: Communications in statistics. Theory and methods Vol. 49; no. 20; pp. 4919 - 4928
• Main Authors: Liu, Yang, Zhu, Lin, Liu, Guanfu, Li, Huapeng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Taylor & Francis 17.10.2020; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Abundance; Birds; Computer simulation; Confidence intervals; continuous-time capture-recapture; Heterogeneity; Likelihood ratio; maximum likelihood estimation; Maximum likelihood estimators; missing covariate; Statistical analysis

In continuous-time capture-recapture experiments, individual heterogeneity has a large effect on the capture probability. To account for the heterogeneity, we consider an individual covariate, which is categorical and subject to missing. In this article, we develop a general model to summarize three...