Use of the fly grill for assessment of house fly populations: An example of sampling techniques that create rough fuzzy sets

Journal of Vector Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 167-172

  Scudder, Harvey I ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contagious distribution; Fly; Fuzzy logic; Grill index; Sampling method

Indexed keywords

EID: 2842537028     PISSN: 10811710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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