Recent Advances in Capture-Recapture Methods for Population Size Estimation

Mon, Aug 5, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Mateo Dulce RubioOrganizerEdward KennedyChair

Social Statistics Section

5 Presentations

Capture-Recapture for Casualty Estimation and Beyond: Recent Advances and Research Directions

10:35 AM - 10:55 AM

Daniel Manrique-Vallier (Indiana University)

Evaluating a Targeted Minimum Loss-based Estimation model for Capture-Recapture analysis through simulation and application to HIV Surveillance in San Francisco, CA

10:55 AM - 11:15 AM

Paul Wesson (University of California, San Francisco)

Two-Stage Bayesian Capture-Recapture Approach for Estimating Sub-Population Sizes Using Administrative Health Data

11:15 AM - 11:35 AM

Jianing Wang (Massachusetts General Hospital)

Co-authors: Shariq Mohammed (Boston University), Joshua Barocas (University of Colorado School of Medicine), Dana Bernson (Massachusetts Department of Public Health), Laura White (Boston University School of Public Health), David Kline (Wake Forest University School of Medicine)

Capture-recapture surveys: sample dependence, partial identification, and robust confidence intervals.

11:35 AM - 11:55 AM

Jinghao Sun (Yale University)

The Central Role of the Identifying Assumption in Population Size Estimation

11:55 AM - 12:15 PM

Serge Aleshin-Guendel (United States Census Bureau)

Co-authors: Mauricio Sadinle, Jon Wakefield (University of Washington)