Efficiency of some sampling designs for spatially clustered populations

Environmetrics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 145-166

  Christman, Mary C ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive cluster sampling; balanced sampling without contiguous units; Hansen Hurwitz estimator; Horvitz Thompson estimator

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CLUSTER SAMPLING; CLUSTERING; SAMPLING DESIGN;

EID: 0030616646     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-095X(199703)8:2<145::AID-ENV249>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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