A Pòlya-urn resampling scheme for estimating precision and confidence intervals under one-stage cluster sampling: Application to map classification accuracy and cover-type frequencies

Forest Science

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 810-822

  Magnussen, Steen ^a   Stehman, Stephen V ^b   Corona, Piermaria ^c   Wulder, Michael A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian bootstrap; Classical inference; Confidence intervals; Coverage rates; Taylor series approximation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; MAPS; SURVEYS;

BAYESIAN BOOTSTRAP PROCEDURE; PÒLYA-URN RESAMPLING SCHEME (PURS); ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS (RMSE); TAYLOR-SERIES APPROXIMATIONS (TSA);

SAMPLING;

ERRORS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; MAPS; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SURVEYS;

EID: 13944255150     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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