TY - GEN T1 - CAMCR: Computer-assisted mixture model analysis for capture-recapture count data AU - Kuhnert, Ronny AU - Böhning, Dankmar AB - Population size estimation with discrete or nonparametric mixture models is considered, and reliable ways of construction of the nonparametric mixture model estimator are reviewed and set into perspective. Construction of the maximum likelihood estimator of the mixing distribution is done for any number of components up to the global nonparametric maximum likelihood bound using the EM algorithm. In addition, the estimators of Chao and Zelterman are considered with some generalisations of Zelterman’s estimator. All computations are done with CAMCR, a special software developed for population size estimation with mixture models. Several examples and data sets are discussed and the estimators illustrated. Problems using the mixture model-based estimators are highlighted. KW - CAMCR KW - Capture–recapture KW - Chao’s and Zelterman’s estimator of population size KW - Mixture of truncated Poisson distributions KW - 610 Medizin PY - 2008 LA - eng PB - Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung VL - 93 IS - 1 DO - 10.1007/s10182-008-0092-z ER -