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This is the preliminary program for the 2006 Joint Statistical
Meetings in Seattle, Washington.
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The views expressed here are those of the individual authors and not necessarily those of the ASA or its board, officers, or staff. Back to main JSM 2006 Program page |
= Applied Session,
= Theme Session,
= Presenter, Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers = “S”| CE_14C | Mon, 8/7/06, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | CC-305 |
| Spatial Survey Design with a Focus on Natural Resources - Continuing Education - Course | ||
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The ASA, Section on Statistics and the Environment |
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| Instructor(s): Anthony R. Olsen, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Donald L. Stevens, Jr, Oregon State University | ||
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This course will present a unified strategy for selecting spatially balanced probability samples of natural resources and other populations that exist in space. It will show how the strategy accommodates unequal probability sampling and problems that arise from frame imperfections and nonresponse due to inaccessibility. A library for the R statistical language will be used to illustrate survey designs applied to finite, linear, and real populations. An accompanying local variance estimator will be introduced and its computation illustrated. Course attendees are expected to be familiar with the topic at the level of: |
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JSM 2006
For information, contact jsm@amstat.org
or phone (888) 231-3473. If you have questions about the Continuing Education program,
please contact the Education Department. |