A recent review of missing data in pharmacy literature has highlighted that a low proportion
of studies reported how missing data was handled. In this paper we discuss the concept of …

Applications of estimating population sizes range from estimating human or ecological
population size within regions or countries to estimating the hidden number of civilian …

What role can statistics play in assessing the patterns of lethal violence in conflict? This
article highlights the evolution of statistical applications in assessing lethal violence, from the …

Data files and codes. Included in the supplementary material there are the following files:
exampleA. dat, exampleB. dat and exampleV. dat contain the data used in Section 5. The …

Record linkage has a long tradition in both the statistical and the computer science literature.
We survey current approaches to the record linkage problem in a privacy-aware setting and …

We present a probabilistic method for linking multiple datafiles. This task is not trivial in the
absence of unique identifiers for the individuals recorded. This is a common scenario when …

We introduce a new Bayesian nonparametric method for estimating the size of a closed
population from multiple-recapture data. Our method, based on Dirichlet process mixtures …

Multiple systems estimation (MSE) is becoming an increasingly common approach for
exploratory study of underreported events in the field of quantitative human rights. In this …

The availability of both structured and unstructured databases, such as electronic health
data, social media data, patent data, and surveys that are often updated in real time, among …

The problem of estimating the size of a population based on a subset of individuals
observed across multiple data sources is often referred to as capture-recapture or multiple …