JSM Preliminary Online Program
This is the preliminary program for the 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle, Washington.

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Legend: = Applied Session, = Theme Session, = Presenter, Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers = “S”
Washington State Convention & Trade Center = “CC”, Grand Hyatt Seattle = “H”

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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
The ASA, Section on Statistics and the Environment
Instructor(s): Anthony R. Olsen, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Donald L. Stevens, Jr, Oregon State University
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:
Sampling by Steven K. Thompson, John Wiley & Sons.

 

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.
Revised April, 2006