This paper presents the conditioned Latin hypercube as a sampling strategy of an area with prior information represented as exhaustive ancillary data. Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) is a stratified random procedure that provides an efficient way of sampling variables from their multivariate distributions. It provides a full coverage of the range of each variable by maximally stratifying the mar...

The experiments were conducted for monitoring crop area by spatial sampling methods in a winter wheat main production region with a size of 42Km×42Km in Hengshui City, Hebei Province in China to optimize designs of the frameworks and elements (sample size, sample-square dimension), based on Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographical Information System (GIS) techniques. 5 sample-square dimension level...

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Objective: The authors examined the incidence of stalking victimization and subsequent help-seeking behaviors among college women. Participants and Methods: A stratified random sample of college women (N = 391) completed an anonymous Internet-based questionnaire in spring 2006. Results: One-fifth of women reported stalking victimization while enrolled at their current institution. Individuals k...

It is well recognized that mining association rules in a very large database is usually time consuming due to the I/O overhead in scanning the disk resident database. As one of the techniques for reducing the I/O overhead, sampling for mining association rules has been actively investigated during the last few years. Each sampling method and algorithm proposed in the literature has its own meri...