David Borchers, Tiago Marques, Thorvaldur Gunnlaugsson, Peter Jupp, Estimating Distance Sampling Detection Functions When Distances Are Measured With Errors, Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and ...

Generalized variance functions (GVF's) are used in a number of sample surveys as a convenient method of publishing sampling errors. The method consists of estimating the relative variance (relvariance ...

Technically, a representative sample requires only whatever percentage of the statistical population is necessary to replicate as closely as possible the quality or characteristic being studied or ...