Desirable design characteristics for long-term monitoring of ecological variables

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 349-361

  Scott Overton, W ^a   Stehman, Stephen V ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Poststratification; Probability sampling; Subpopulation estimation

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SAMPLING;

EID: 0030316717     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00539371     Document Type: Article

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