Composite Sampling A Novel Method to Accomplish Observational Econom

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. Sampli

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Environmental and Ecological Statistics Series Editors G.P. Patil Distinguished Professor of Mathematical Statistics Director, Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics Editor-in-Chief, Environmental and Ecological Statistics The Pennsylvania State University Timothy G. Gregoire J.P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr. Professor of Forest Management School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale University Andrew B. Lawson Division of Biostatistics & Epidemiology Medical University of South Carolina Barry D. Nussbaum Chief Statistician U.S. Environmental Protection Agency The Springer series Environmental and Ecological Statistics is devoted to the cross-disciplinary subject area of environmental and ecological statistics discussing important topics and themes in statistical ecology, environmental statistics, and relevant risk analysis. Emphasis is focused on applied mathematical statistics, statistical methodology, data interpretation and improvement for future use, with a view to advance statistics for environment, ecology, and environmental health, and to advance environmental theory and practice using valid statistics. Each volume in the Environmental and Ecological Statistics series is based on the appropriateness of the statistical methodology to the particular environmental and ecological problem area, within the context of contemporary environmental issues and the associated statistical tools, concepts, and methods. Previous Volumes in this Series VOLUME 1 Landscape Pattern Analysis for Assessing Ecosystem Condition Glen D. Johnson and Ganapati Patil VOLUME 2 Pattern-Based Compression of Multi-Band Image Data for Landscape Analysis Wayne Myers and Ganapati Patil VOLUME 3 Modeling Demographic Processes In Marked Populations Edited by David L. Thomson, Evan G. Cooch and Michael J. Conroy VOLUME 4 Composite Sampling: A Novel Method to Accomplish Observational Economy in Environmental Studies Ganapati P. Patil, Sharad D. Gore and Charles Taillie (Deceased)

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Ganapati P. Patil · Sharad D. Gore · Charles Taillie (Deceased)

Composite Sampling A Novel Method to Accomplish Observational Economy in Environmental Studies

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Ganapati P. Patil Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA, USA [email protected]

Sharad D. Gore Department of Statistics University of Pune Pune, India [email protected]

Charles Taillie (Deceased) Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics Penn State University University Park, PA, USA

ISBN 978-1-4419-7627-7 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-7628-4 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7628-4 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London c Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011  All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly anal