Adventures with Partial Identifications in Studies of Marked Individuals
Simon Bonner · Nov 26, 2021
Date: 2021-11-26 Time: 15:30-16:30 (Montreal time) Zoom Link Meeting ID: 939 8331 3215 Passcode: 096952 Abstract: Monitoring marked individuals is a common strategy in studies of wild animals (referred to as mark-recapture or capture-recapture experiments) and hard to track human populations (referred to as multi-list methods or multiple-systems estimation). A standard assumption of these techniques is that individuals can be identified uniquely and without error, but this can be violated in many ways.