6. 2 The Two-Sample Capture-Recapture Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 6. 3 Conditional Maximum Likelihood Estimation of N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 6. 4 The Three-Sample Census . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 6. 5 The General Multiple Recapture Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 6. 6 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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