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Based on the parameters of the NICER telescope, the energy spectrum forward model of the Crab Nebula in the energy range of 0.25\u20138 keV during the occultation is constructed, and the energy spectrum simulation data are obtained by adding noise to the energy spectrum forward model at different tangent point altitudes. The NICER energy band includes the K-shell absorption edges (0.4 keV, 0.53 keV for N, O), and there are significant differences in X-ray cross sections at the K-shell absorption edges, which provides an opportunity to retrieve the atmospheric density of each element. The MCMC algorithm is used to fit the energy spectrum forward model and simulation data, and the density profiles of elements N and O are retrieved. It is found that the retrieved error of O element in the altitude range of 120\u2013140 km is large, which may be related to the low proportion of O in the line of sight and the low signal-to-noise ratio of simulation data. In the altitude range of 140\u2013200 km, the retrieved error of elements N and O is small, but in the altitude range of 200\u2013250 km, the retrieved error of elements N and O becomes larger, and the inconsistency between the retrieved results and NRLMSISE-00 model values increases. This is because the number of absorbed photons is reduced due to the thin atmospheric density at higher altitude, which introduces great uncertainty into the retrieved results. 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