Improving the precision of estimates of the frequency of rare events

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1114-1123

  Dixon, Philip M ^a   Ellison, Aaron M ^b   Gotelli, Nicholas J ^c  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Bayesian inference; Coefficient of variation; Estimators; Precision; Rare events; Regression; Sampling; Stratification

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; RARITY; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DARLINGTONIA CALIFORNICA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 18444394977     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-0601     Document Type: Article

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