Incorporating prior knowledge in environmental sampling: Ranked set sampling and other double sampling procedures

Environmetrics

Volumn 13, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 513-521

  Mode, Nicolle A ^a   Conquest, Loveday L ^a   Marker, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WESTAT   (United States)

Author keywords

Double sampling; Prior knowledge; Ranked set sampling; Relative precision; Simple random sampling; Two phase sampling

Indexed keywords

SAMPLING;

EID: 0036698067     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.530     Document Type: Article

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