Composite Sampling - A Novel Method to Accomplish Observational Economy in Environmental Studies (Hardcover, Edition.)

This monograph provides, for the first time, a most comprehensive statistical account of composite sampling as an ingenious environmental sampling method to help accomplish observational economy in a variety of environmental and ecological studies. Sampling consists of selection, acquisition, and quantification of a part of the population. But often what is desirable is not affordable, and what is affordable is not adequate. How do we deal with this dilemma? Operationally, composite sampling recognizes the distinction between selection, acquisition, and quantification. In certain applications, it is a common experience that the costs of selection and acquisition are not very high, but the cost of quantification, or measurement, is substantially high. In such situations, one may select a sample sufficiently large to satisfy the requirement of representativeness and precision and then, by combining several sampling units into composites, reduce the cost of measurement to an affordable level. Thus composite sampling offers an approach to deal with the classical dilemma of desirable versus affordable sample sizes, when conventional statistical methods fail to resolve the problem. Composite sampling, at least under idealized conditions, incurs no loss of information for estimating the population means. But an important limitation to the method has been the loss of information on individual sample values, such as the extremely large value. In many of the situations where individual sample values are of interest or concern, composite sampling methods can be suitably modified to retrieve the information on individual sample values that may be lost due to compositing. In this monograph, we present statistical solutions to these and other issues that arise in the context of applications of composite sampling. Content Level Research

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Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 4
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	2011
Authors:	Ganapati P. Patil • Sharad D. Gore • Charles Taillie
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	275
Edition:	Edition.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4419-7627-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Probability & statistics Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General Books > Computing & IT > Computer software packages > Other software packages > Mathematical & statistical software
LSN:	1-4419-7627-2
Barcode:	9781441976277

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