Correspondence: Some general points regarding Ledberg and Wennberg, BMC Medical Research Methodology 2014 April 27;14:58

The purpose of this note is to contribute some general points on a recent paper by Ledberg and Wennberg (BMC Med Res Meth 14:58, 2014) which need to be rectified. They advocate the capture-removal estimator. First, we will discuss drawbacks of this estimator in comparison to the Lincoln-Petersen est...

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Autores principales: Böhning, Dankmar, van der Heijden, Peter G.M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4494154/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26148541
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-015-0043-9
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description The purpose of this note is to contribute some general points on a recent paper by Ledberg and Wennberg (BMC Med Res Meth 14:58, 2014) which need to be rectified. They advocate the capture-removal estimator. First, we will discuss drawbacks of this estimator in comparison to the Lincoln-Petersen estimator. Second, we show that their evaluation of the Chao estimator is flawed. We conclude that some statements in Ledberg and Wennberg with respect to Chao’s estimator and removal estimation need to be taken with great caution.
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spelling pubmed-44941542015-07-08 Correspondence: Some general points regarding Ledberg and Wennberg, BMC Medical Research Methodology 2014 April 27;14:58 Böhning, Dankmar van der Heijden, Peter G.M. BMC Med Res Methodol Correspondence The purpose of this note is to contribute some general points on a recent paper by Ledberg and Wennberg (BMC Med Res Meth 14:58, 2014) which need to be rectified. They advocate the capture-removal estimator. First, we will discuss drawbacks of this estimator in comparison to the Lincoln-Petersen estimator. Second, we show that their evaluation of the Chao estimator is flawed. We conclude that some statements in Ledberg and Wennberg with respect to Chao’s estimator and removal estimation need to be taken with great caution. BioMed Central 2015-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4494154/ /pubmed/26148541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-015-0043-9 Text en © Böhning and van der Heijden. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4494154/
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