A resampling variance estimator for the k nearest neighbours technique

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 648-658

  Magnussen, S ^a   McRoberts, R E ^b   Tomppo, E O ^c  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA ESTIMATION; AREA OF INTEREST; ARTIFICIAL POPULATION; CLUSTER SAMPLING; COMPUTING TIME; CURRENT ESTIMATOR; FOREST INVENTORY DATA; K NEAREST NEIGHBOURS (K-NN); K-NEAREST NEIGHBOURS; MONTE CARLO SAMPLING; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; RESAMPLING; SAMPLE SIZES; VARIANCE ESTIMATORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SAMPLING;

ESTIMATION;

FOREST INVENTORY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SAMPLING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 77951678487     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X10-020     Document Type: Article

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