How many?, Ruth King | LMS Popular Lectures 2015

The question of "How many...?" arises in many different fields. For many applications, however, it is not possible to simply count the members of the population of interest. For such cases I will discuss mathematical tools that can be applied to provide an estimate of the total population size. Applications range from the number of webpages on the Internet on a given topic or the number of bugs in a computer code to the number of drug addicts or animals in a given area.
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