Human interactions play an important role in determining the potential transmission routes of infectious diseases and other contagion phenomena 1. Their measure and characterization represent an ...

Capture–recapture methods estimate the size of a population by repeatedly sampling individuals, marking or identifying them, and examining the overlap among capture occasions. Originally developed in ...

Cochran (1977) outlines eleven steps in the planning of a survey. Good sampling methods must exist in the environment of all of these steps. These steps are (1) a statement of the survey objectives, ...

Let’s imagine that we are studying a species of beetle. The beetles come in many different colors, and we want to know how common the orange (O) coloring is in this population. This population of ...