Citation

Manrique‐Vallier D, Fienberg SE. Biom. J. 2008; 50(6): 1051-1063.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/bimj.200810448

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

We revisit the heterogeneous closed population multiple recapture problem, modeling individual-level heterogeneity using the Grade of Membership model (Woodbury et al., 1978). This strategy allows us to postulate the existence of homogeneous latent “ideal” or “pure” classes within the population, and construct a soft clustering of the individuals, where each one is allowed partial or mixed membership in all of these classes. We propose a full hierarchical Bayes specification and a MCMC algorithm to obtain samples from the posterior distribution. We apply the method to simulated data and to three real life examples. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)