[R-sig-eco] Neighbor sampling is random?
Salvador Sánchez-Colón
salvadorsanchezcolon at prodigy.net.mx
Sat Jul 4 18:10:03 CEST 2009
Quite right, she did in there. Just for Paulo's file in case he does not
manage to find that old (but most enlightening) book: That sampling
scheme leads to an over-representation of isolated plants; that is,
those plants have a higher probability of being included in the sample.
Muito pracer,
Salvador
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Jari Oksanen escribió:
> E. C. Pielou may be one of the first who wrote about this. Check her book 'Mathematical ecology' (J. Wiley, 1977).
>
> Best wishes, Jari Oksanen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paulo Inácio de Knegt López de Prado
> Sent: 04.07.2009, 17:35
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> Subject: [R-sig-eco] Neighbor sampling is random?
>
> Dear r-eco-list users,
>
> This is not an R-question, but a statistical one, but maybe somebody can help.
>
> I had read that to set random points over an area and picking the nearest
> plant is not random sample, but I could not recover this article.
>
> Is that correct? Could you provide some basic reference?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Paulo
>
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