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International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas and the Eighth International Conference of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics
December 19-21, 2001
School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong
Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Organizers
Satya N. Mishra (University of South Alabama), Chandra M. Gulati (University of Wollongong)

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Non-Parametric Estimation of a Frequency Distribution from Independent Double Sampling Data
by
Chris J. Lloyd
Australian Graduate School of Management

Consider the following problem. You want to estimate the total size of a population as well as the frequency distribution of an attribute (such as age) across that population. However, you are only able to obtained biased samples from this population. Independent double sampling is a generalised design that includes mark recapture and line transect sampling. Under this design we develop methods for estimating the frequency distribution, and hence the population total, non-parametrically. The methods are applied to data on aboriginal populations in Canada.

Date received: September 13, 2001

Copyright © 2001 by the author(s). The author(s) of this document and the organizers of the conference have granted their consent to include this abstract in Atlas Conferences Inc. Document # cagd-94.