Estimating Size of a Set based on three or more Overlapping Subsets

Question

What's the solution to the capture-recapture problem with 3 or more overlapping subsets, not just 2, as in the standard version of the problem?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 30 '18 at 02:37

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See the Schnabel method which is basically a weighted average of each of the Peterson estimates.

answered Jul 30 '18 at 02:37

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