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University of Reading
Recent Developments in
CAPTURE-RECAPTURE METHODS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
Conference Chair: Professor Dankmar Böhning
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Dates of Conference:
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Thursday 12 July 2007
Friday 13 July 2007
Location:
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University of Reading, UK
Background, Scope and Issues:
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In recent years capture-recapture methods have experienced important
theoretical developments. New application areas have been added to
their spectrum, in turn supporting new developments on the
methodological side.
Capture-Recapture has its origin in the Biological/Ecological
Sciences with the work of Lincoln and Petersen. One hundred
years ago Petersen published his landmark paper suggesting what later
became known as the Lincoln-Petersen estimator,
still in use by numerous practitioners. In a way, this conference
could be considered a celebration of the centenary
of the Lincoln-Petersen estimator.
Capture-Recapture methods can be seen to be applied in three major
sciences, all represented on the panel of invited speakers.
* The biological sciences, where the size of animal populations
and their diversity are of importance.
* The life and medical sciences, where we often want to know the
size of the hidden disease burden in a population,
such as depression or drug use.
* The social sciences, where we are interested in the amount of
illegal activities, such as illegal immigration.
Selected Invited Speakers
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David Borchers
School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of St. Andrews, UK
Spatially explicit maximum likelihood methods for capture-recapture
studies
John Bunge
Department of Statistical Science, Cornell University, USA
Connecting abundance and incidence models
Ken Burnham
Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology, Colorado State
University, USA
Challenges and opportunities and for analysis of capture-recapture data
Anne Chao
Institute of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
The applications of capture-recapture models to biodiversity estimation
and epidemiological surveillance
Stephen E. Fienberg
Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Multiple systems estimation for population estimation, record linkage, and
missing data: integration of methodology
Peter van der Heijden
Department of Statistics and Methods, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Methods for estimating the size of the Dutch illegal population
Ruth King
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, UK
Recent advances in Bayesian analysis of ecological capture-recapture
data
Jean-Dominique LeBreton
CEFE, CNRS, France
Heterogeneity in open population models: estimating the number of
wolves in the French Alps based on molecular data
Byron Morgan
Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science,
University of Kent, UK
New methods for including covariates in models for the
survival of wild animals
Shirley Pledger
School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Victoria
University, Wellington, New Zealand
Using mixtures to model heterogeneity in capture-recapture models
Call for Papers & Posters
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Contributions are invited on the following issues:
* estimation of population size and error assessment
* modelling and coping with heterogeneity
* problems of identifiability
* modelling of prior information and covariate
* model selection and evaluation
* application studies
* free topics
With two pre-conference SHORT COURSES on Wed 11 July 2007
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Conference fee £150
Short Course fee: one £100, both £150
Call for papers: SUBMISSION DEADLINE 11 May 2007 (extended from 1
May)
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