Alternative confidence intervals for the total of a skewed biological population

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3166-3171

  Andersson, Per Gösta ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Correlation; Normality; Poisson sampling; Simple random sampling; Skewness

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; POPULATION MODELING; SAMPLING; SKEWNESS;

EID: 9244260572     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-3122     Document Type: Article

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