Sampling Techniques for Forest Inventories (Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Environmental Statistics) by Mandallaz, Daniel - 2019-09-18

Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2019-09-19. Paperback. Very Good. 0.5512 9.1732 6.1417. Softcover.� Clean text -- NO writing, NO highlighting to text.� Very Good condition.

New. Sound forest management planning requires cost-efficient approaches to optimally utilize given resources. Emphasizing the mathematical and statistical features of forest sampling to assess classical dendrometrical quantities, Sampling Techniques for Forest Inventories presents the statistical concepts and tools needed to conduct a modern forest inventory. The book first examines design-based survey sampling and inference for finite populations, covering inclusion probabilities and the Horvitz-Thompson estimator, followed by more advanced topics, including three-stage element sampling and the model-assisted estimation procedure. The author then develops the infinite population model/Monte Carlo approach for both simple and complex sampling schemes. He also uses a case study to reveal a variety of estimation procedures, relies on anticipated variance to tackle optimal design for forest inventories, and validates the resulting optimal schemes with data from the Swiss National Forest Inventory.… Read More

Paperback / softback. New.

Chapman & Hall, 2019. Paperback. New. 272 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches.

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