[R-sig-eco] Neighbor sampling is random?

[Kingsford Jones]

This may help a bit with intuition.  Think about randomly picking a
spot in the box below and then choosing the nearest neighbor.  What's
the inclusion probability for 1?  What about 6?  Clearly not a simple
random sample...


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hth,

Kingsford Jones

2009/7/4 Paulo Inácio de Knegt López de Prado <prado at ib.usp.br>:
> 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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