History and examples of capture / recapture method a Capture-recapture methods were originally developed in the wildlife biology to monitor the census of bird, fish, and insect populations(counting all individuals is prohibitive) Recently, these methods have been utilized considerably in the areas of disease and event monitoring ahttp://www.pittedu/yuc2/cr/history.htm Ka-fu Wong C2007 ECON1003: Analysis of Economic Data Lesson 1-7Ka-fu Wong © 2007 ECON1003: Analysis of Economic Data Lesson1-7 History and examples of capture / recapture method ◼ Capture-recapture methods were originally developed in the wildlife biology to monitor the census of bird, fish, and insect populations (counting all individuals is prohibitive). Recently, these methods have been utilized considerably in the areas of disease and event monitoring. ◼ http://www.pitt.edu/~yuc2/cr/history.htm