A better alternative to Wald's test-statistic for simple goodness-of-fit tests under one-stage cluster sampling

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 221, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 123-132

  Magnussen, Steen ^a   Köhl, Michael ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Chi squared statistic; Design effect; Forest cover types; Intra cluster correlation; Logistic regression; Method of moments; Test power; Type I error rate; Type II error rate

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DECISION MAKING; LOGISTICS;

FOREST-COVER TYPES; INTRA-CLUSTER CORRELATION; TYPE-I ERROR RATE;

STATISTICS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY;

CORRELATION; FORESTRY; STATISTICS;

EID: 29744467985     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.09.013     Document Type: Article

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