Article ID: | iaor1991748 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 36 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 77 |
End Page Number: | 83 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1990 |
Journal: | Stochastic Processes and Their Applications |
Authors: | Becker N.G., Heyde C.C. |
The size of a closed population is to be estimated using data from a multiple recapture study in either continuous or discrete time. Here the use of maximum likelihood raises computational problems. However, a family of martingale estimating functions related to the score function is shown to produce convenient simple estimators with good asymptotic efficiency relative to the maximum likelihood estimator.