Some Properties of the Hypergeometric Distribution with Applications to Zoological Sample Censuses

Chapman, D. G. (1951). Some Properties of the Hypergeometric Distribution with Applications to Zoological Sample Censuses. University of California Publications in Statistics, 1(7), 131-160.

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Year

1951

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  • The overlap is the signal: because only one in five of the second catch was previously marked, the marked 80 must represent roughly a fifth of the whole — implying a population near 400.

    This sourceThe cited work does not supply the mechanism's exact observed one-in-five premise.

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