The VGAM Package for Capture-Recapture Data Using the Conditional Likelihood

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We thank the reviewers for their helpful feedback that led to substantial improvements in the manuscript. TWY thanks Anne Chao for a helpful conversation, and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne for hospitality, during a sabbatical visit to Taiwan and a workshop, respectively. Part of his work was also conducted while as a visitor to the Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, during October 2012. JS visited TWY on the Tweedle-funded Melbourne Abroad Travelling Scholarship, the University of Melbourne, during September 2011. All authors would also like to thank Paul Yip for providing and giving permission for use of the prinia data set, and Zachary Kurtz for some helpful comments.