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Optimal designs provide a very efficient way to maximize the amount of information gained in an experiment. For linear models the information is a factor of the covariates, but for non-linear models maximizing the information becomes more difficult because of the relationship of information with...
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This dissertation is comprised of three essays on nonparametric Bayesian modeling in microeconometrics. The introduction discusses some basic concepts of Bayesian nonparametrics including the Dirichlet process and the mixture of Dirichlet processes model. Further, the literature on estimating...
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Systematic sampling is easy, efficient, and widely used, though it is not generally recognized that a systematic sample … of them determine which estimators are unbiased, when using the sampling design as the basis for inference. We describe … selection. When the population size is known at the outset, systematic sampling with unrestricted selection is most likely the …
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inventory of fine woody debris (FWD); however, the sampling protocols involve tallying only the number of FWD pieces by size … class that intersect a sampling transect with no measure of actual size. The line intersect estimator used with those …
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Binomial sampling based on the proportion of samples infested was investigated for estimating mean densities of citrus … parameters adequately described a validation data set from a sampling plan consisting of 192 samples. Projections indicated the … fitted parameters would apply to sampling plans with as few as 48 samples, but reducing sample size resulted in an increase …
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. Projections indicated that a sampling plan consisting of 10 trees and eight flush shoots per tree would provide density estimates … presence-absence sampling plan with a fixed precision level was developed and can be used to provide a quick estimation of D …
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both simple random and cluster sampling. The BRR estimate of variance is the sum of variances and covariances of unit …-level kNN estimates in the area of interest. In Monte Carlo simulations of simple random and cluster sampling from seven … and Monte Carlo sampling variances was good both for population and for small-area totals. The modified BRR estimator is …
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In many applications of line intersect sampling, transects consist of multiple, connected segments in a prescribed … illustrated and a consistent sampling protocol, applicable to populations composed of arbitrarily shaped elements, is proposed. It …
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Carlo, Latin hypercube sampling with constrained Monte Carlo, and generalized likelihood uncertainty estimation), and …
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user determine the optimal number and location of samples using defensible statistical sampling design methods and displays … summarizing the assumptions and parameter inputs is generated and can be included in a sampling and analysis plan. VSP features …
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