ABSTRACT
The use of meta-analysis to combine or synthesize the results of several capture-recapture studies. Maritime accidents reach public interest only under unusual, often spectacular circumstances such as in the Costa Concordia accident in 2012. However, in most cases maritime accidents happen without much public notice and, in fact, many even remain unreported. Underreporting of maritime accidents is a problem not only for authorities trying to improve maritime safety through legislation, but also to risk management companies and other entities using maritime casualty statistics in risk and accident analysis. Registered maritime accidents are available for the five years from 2005 to 2009 from two maritime accident registries, called Sea-Web and Flag-State. Meta-analysis is a statistical methodology for the analysis and integration of results from individual, independent studies. In the last decades, meta-analysis developed a crucial role in many fields of science such as medicine and pharmacy, health science, psychology, and social science.
