Estimating a pond population by tag and recapture
Question
You catch fish from a pond, tag them and let them go. Next day you catch fish and find carrying tags. What is the natural estimate of how many fish live in the pond?
Short answer
. A quarter of the second sample is tagged, so the tagged fish should be about a quarter of the population (Lincoln–Petersen estimate ).
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