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WELCOME TO THE MULTIPLE RECAPTURE ESTIMATOR
This website provides a standardized calculator that calculates population sizes based on multiple-recapture studies. If you have unique identifier codes for individuals within different databases, you can estimate the total population size. Usually, this estimation is a sophisticated problem tackled with advanced methodology as log-linear models. In order to provide a stable and comparable algorithm this website helps you easily performing these techniques without much effort.
This website aims at triggering multiple publications in the field of substance use disorders and drug consumption / trafficking. Of course, you can use this service also in other fields (biology, zoology etc.). Within this website another approach than log-linear models is also included: probabilistic multiple-recapture. This method solves the problem of multiple data source overlap on a mathematical and not statistical basis. You can compare the results obtained by both methods. You can also use this website to check the results you did get with your own estimation techniques.
Please provide us with information about publications you did using this service. We are very much pleased to list your publication on this website.
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