Contents
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Kaufman’s Anchored Method
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Chen and Sinding–Larsen’s Geo-Anchored Method
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Superpopulation Methods
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USGS Log-Geometric Method
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The Creaming Method
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The Long Method
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The Regression Method
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The Fractal Method
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8 Concluding Remarks
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Appendix A: Estimation of Superpopulation Parameters
from a Successively Sampled Finite Population
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The Likelihood Function
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Maximum-Likelihood Estimation
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Inference for ␪ and N
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Inference for the Weight Function
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Appendix B: Nonparametric Procedure for Estimating
Distributions
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Appendix C: The Largest Pool Size and Its Distribution
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The rth Largest Pool-Size Distribution
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Generation of Reservoir Parameters for a Given
Pool Size
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Appendix D: Pool Size Conditional on Pool Ranks
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Theorem 1
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Corollary
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Theorem 2
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References
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Index
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