Capture-Recapture Sampling/Examples

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Examples of Capture-Recapture Sampling

Arbitrary Example 1

Let $25$ squirrels be captured, marked and released.

On a later date, let $40$ squirrels be captured and inspected.

Let $5$ of those be ones which were marked on the first capture exercise.


Then a fair estimate of the entire population of squirrels is $200$.