Epidemiological capture-recapture Data on the lesbian population
Epidemiological capture-recapture data on the lesbian population from four four organisations that serve the lesbian and gay population of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States and maintain large mailing lists.
lesbian
15 by 5 numeric matrix, with the following columns:
A, B, C, D
Capture histories from the four organisations mailling lists
freqObserved frequencies for each capture history
The capture histories were obtained by matching the names on the four mailling lists.
Each row of this data set represents an observed capture history followed by its frequency.
Aaron, D.J., Chang, Y.-F., Markovic, N., LaPorte, R. E. (2003) Estimating the lesbian population: a capture-recapture approach. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health , 57(3), 207–209.
closedp(lesbian, dfreq = TRUE) # According to the BIC, the best model is Mth Darroch. # Let's see if adding interactions between capture # histories to the model could improve the model's fit. closedpMS.t(lesbian, dfreq = TRUE, h = "Darroch") # According to the BIC, the best heterogeneous Darroch model # contains the double interactions 12, 13, 14.
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