Statistical analysis of ratio estimators and their estimators of variances when the auxiliary variate is measured with error

European Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 847-861

  Salas, Christian ^a,b   Gregoire, Timothy G ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bias; Design based inference; Forest inventory; Sampling; Variance estimators

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST INVENTORY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

PINUS TAEDA;

EID: 77956178631     PISSN: 16124669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10342-009-0277-3     Document Type: Article

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