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SERIES B
Statistical Methodology

K. Chen: Parametric and semiparametric models for recapture and romoval studies - a likelihood approach
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Applied Statistics, Sercies B,
volume 63 (2001), part 3, pages 607-619

The file "chen.f" contains the Fortran code used to run the simulation in the paper.

The set-up of this simulation example is presented in the paper.

The code contains mainly the data generation part, which has to be revised if a different simulation example is considered, and five subroutines. The purpose of each subroutine and all input/output variables used are explained in the program. The outputs are saved in three matrices outprecap, outpremov and outsemi. The meaning of of the entries in these matrices can be found in the their corresponding explanations. One might choose to write these outputs in a file and then do further analysis of these outputs.

If one is interested in parametric analysis only, it is suggested that one might separate parametric analysis and semiparametric analysis into two programs, since the latter simulation takes relatively longer time than the former.

Kani Chen
Department of Mathematics
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay
Kowloon
Hong Kong
People's Republic of China

E-mail: makchen@ust.hk

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Statistics in Society

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Statistical Methodology

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Applied Statistics

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The Statistician