Accuracy of Capture-Recapture Estimates of Prevalence

Capture recapture methods using data on cases appearing on overlapping incomplete lists have been widely used for prevalence estimates. Nevertheless, workers have, in general, employed several different methods and there appears no consensus as to which is optimal.The authors, using several different methods, undertook an “empirical” investigation of data in 21 reports available in the literature, for which they could compare the known total in...