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2003 Oct 01
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hypergeometric & population estimates
...cted an aerial survey and saw 70 uncollared caribou and 8 of 11 collared caribou. We want to estimate the number of caribou in this population with 95% confidence limits. Gary White uses the hypergeometric distribution and determines the population estimates using maximum likelihood and 95%CL as -2LogLikelihoods. Below, I determined the population estimate using dhyper(x,m,n,k) and maximizing the density value as a function of n, but do not know how I should calculate MLE with this distribution. x <- 8 # number resighted caribou (white balls drawn) m <-11 # number collared caribou...