Correspondence: some general points regarding Ledberg and Wennberg, BMC Medical Research Methodology 2014 April 27;14:58
Correspondence: some general points regarding Ledberg and Wennberg, BMC Medical Research Methodology 2014 April 27;14:58
The purpose of this note is to contribute some general points on a recent paper by Ledberg and Wennberg (BMC Med Res Meth 14:58, 2014) which need to be rectified. They advocate the capture-removal estimator. First, we will discuss drawbacks of this estimator in comparison to the Lincoln-Petersen estimator. Second, we show that their evaluation of the Chao estimator is flawed. We conclude that some statements in Ledberg and Wennberg with respect to Chao’s estimator and removal estimation need to be taken with great caution
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Bohning, D.
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van der Heijden, P.
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7 July 2015
Bohning, D.
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van der Heijden, P.
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Bohning, D. and van der Heijden, P.
(2015)
Correspondence: some general points regarding Ledberg and Wennberg, BMC Medical Research Methodology 2014 April 27;14:58.
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 15 (51), .
(doi:10.1186/s12874-015-0043-9).
Abstract
The purpose of this note is to contribute some general points on a recent paper by Ledberg and Wennberg (BMC Med Res Meth 14:58, 2014) which need to be rectified. They advocate the capture-removal estimator. First, we will discuss drawbacks of this estimator in comparison to the Lincoln-Petersen estimator. Second, we show that their evaluation of the Chao estimator is flawed. We conclude that some statements in Ledberg and Wennberg with respect to Chao’s estimator and removal estimation need to be taken with great caution
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Accepted/In Press date: 16 June 2015
Published date: 7 July 2015
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The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Medical Research Methodology 2015 15:76
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