University of Wyoming

Sampling Design: Upstream and downstream monitoring

This approach directly measures the change in the stream between two points. Typically it covers a relatively short reach of river so it may be easy to collect samples. If there are no changes in flow ...
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Design-Based or Prediction-Based Inference? Stratified Random vs Stratified Balanced Sampling

Early survey statisticians faced a puzzling choice between randomized sampling and purposive selection but, by the early 1950s, Neyman's design-based or randomization approach had become generally ...
University of Wyoming

Sampling Design: Monitoring a reference site for comparison

With this approach, a second site (a baseline reference site) in a very similar watershed is monitored. Changes in the BMP site are compared to this baseline. The monitoring approach is greatly ...
CBS

Inferring network traffic from sensors without a sampling design

The use of non-probability data as a primary data source in official statistics is currently an active field of research. Without the traditional sampling design, modern machine-learning algorithms ...
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The Effects of Inference Method, Population Sampling, and Gene Sampling on Species Tree Inferences: An Empirical Study in Slender Salamanders (Plethodontidae: Batrachoseps)

Systematic Biology, Vol. 64, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY (2013) (JANUARY 2015), pp. 66-83 (18 pages) Species tree methods are now widely used to infer the ...