Geostatistical estimation variance for the spatial mean in two-dimensional systematic sampling

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 543-553

  Aubry, Philippe ^a   Debouzie, Domitien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Acorn density; Geostatistics; Model based inference; Random sampling; Semivariogram; Stationarity; Superpopulation model; Systematic sampling; Variance estimation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; GEOSTATISTICS; SAMPLING;

QUERCUS; QUERCUS PETRAEA;

EID: 0033949002     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[0543:GEVFTS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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