Sampling-skewed biological populations: Behavior of confidence intervals for the population total

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1056-1065

  Gregoire, Timothy G ^a,c   Schabenberger, Oliver ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Failure rates; Normality; Simple random sampling

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ESTIMATION METHOD; SAMPLING; SKEWNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032917870     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[1056:SSBPBO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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