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I remember my theoretical stats teacher showing us this problem. It's used all the time in ecology. His example used it to estimate the number of alligators i
by RA_Fisher 13y ago
I remember my theoretical stats teacher showing us this problem. It's used all the time in ecology. His example used it to estimate the number of alligators in Louisiana swamps. They tag the alligators, release, and then using the tags they re-capture over subsequent years, they can get an estimate of how many alligators exist in the wild!
- taejo 13y agoThe German tank problem applies when all the alligators come pre-tagged with serial numbers :) Capture-recapture is a slightly different problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_and_recapture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_and_recapture