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Lincoln formula

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Lincoln formula
a formula used to estimate the number of animals in a wildlife population where the capture-release-recapture strategy is adopted. The formula is N/M?=?n/m, where N is the unknown population size, M is the number of marked animals released, n is the number of animals recaptured, and m is the number of recaptured animals that are marked.

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