Statistical Techniques for Sampling And Monitoring Natural Resources

This Forest Service report presents the statistical theory of inventory & monitoring from a probabilistic point of view. It starts with the basics & shows the interrelationships between designs & estimators illustrating the methods with a small artificial population as well as with a mapped realistic population. For such applications, useful open source software is given in Appendix 4. Various sources of ancillary information are described & applications of the sampling strategies are discussed. Classical & bootstrap variance estimators are also discussed. Numerous problems with solutions are given, often based on the experiences of the authors. Key additional references are cited. Illustrated.Schreuder, Hans T. is the author of 'Statistical Techniques for Sampling And Monitoring Natural Resources ', published 2004 under ISBN 9780756745387 and ISBN 0756745381.