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Darroch's method. is a method for estimating the size of a population using multiple (more than two) captures. For example, suppose that there are four captures of sizes
a. Suppose that we are estimating the size of a population of fish in a pond using four separate captures. The sizes of the captures are
b. Show that with just two captures Darroch's method gives the same answer as the capture-recapture method.
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