Assessing the human condition: capture-recapture techniques
BMJPublished 1 January 1994Open access
R. E Laporte
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The use of capture-recapture techniques could bring about a paradigm shift in how counting is done in all the disciplines that assess human populations, including epidemiology, sociology, political sciences, criminology, and market research.
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