Method to choose best jackknife estimator in CAPTURE

[matobler]

Does anyone know where to find a description of the statistical tests used by CAPTURE to select the best order for the jackknife estimator. Otis 1978 cites the method as "Burnham unpublished dissertation" and I was not able to find any other reference.

I would appreciate any help with this.

Mathias

[Fish_Boy]

If you want a general overview of the procedures the following paper will help...

Colwell and Coddington 1994. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 345: 101-118.

if you cannot find it email me through my profile and I will send you a pdf.

[matobler]

Thanks. I do have that article. Maybe I have to specify my question a little.

I am looking for the formulas to calculate the Chi-square values as well as the interpolated population estimate. I have formulas for the Jackknife estimators but don't know how to performe the chis-square test.

Bellow the part of the CAPTURE output I am interested in.

Thanks,

Mathias


The results of the jackknife computations

i N(i) SE(i) .95 Conf. Limits Test of N(i+1) vs. N(i)
0 7 Chi-square (1 d.f.)
1 12.0 3.16 5.8 18.2 1.350
2 15.0 5.48 4.3 25.7 0.067
3 16.0 8.49 -0.6 32.6 0.038
4 15.0 12.65 -9.8 39.8 0.216
5 12.0 18.17 -23.6 47.6 0.000

Average p-hat = 0.0148

Interpolated population estimate is 10 with standard error 3.5783