Estimate fake-account prevalence with capture-recapture
Company: Meta
Role: Data Scientist
Category: Statistics & Math
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Onsite
Overview: This question evaluates a data scientist's competency in capture–recapture estimation, estimation of population size with incomplete detections, statistical inference for confidence intervals, understanding of bias from detector dependence, and post-stratification or model-based adjustments.
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