Population size estimation with covariate values missing non-ignorable

The main purpose of this paper is using capture-recapture data to estimate the population size when some covariate values are missing, possibly non-ignorable. Conditional likelihood method is adopted, with a sub-model describing various missing mechanisms. The derived estimate is proved to be asymptotically normal, and simulation studies via a version of EM algorithm show that it is approximately unbiased. The proposed method is applied to a real example, and the result is compared with previous ones.