Design-based and model-based inference in survey sampling: Appreciating the difference

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1429-1447

  Gregoire, Timothy G ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURVEYS;

DESIGN BASED INFERENCE; FINITE POPULATION SAMPLING; MODEL BASED INFERENCE;

SAMPLING;

MODELING; SAMPLING; SURVEY DESIGN;

EID: 0032194277     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x98-166     Document Type: Review

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