Morgan, B. J. T.; Ridout, M. S. - In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C 57 (2008) 4, pp. 433-446
We propose a mixture of binomial and beta-binomial distributions for estimating the size of closed populations. The new mixture model is applied to several real capture-recapture data sets and is shown to provide a convenient, objective framework for model selection. The new model is compared...