Sampling Rare Populations
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Adaptive survey designs for sampling rare and clustered populations
Designing an efficient large-area survey is a challenge, especially in environmental science when many populations are rare and clustered. Adaptive and unequal probability sampling designs are appealing when populations are rare and clustered because survey effort can be targeted to subareas of high interest. For example, higher density subareas are usually of more interest than lower density a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General)
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0035-9238
DOI: 10.2307/2981886