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Two‐Dimensional Systematic Sampling of Land Use
Author(s) -
Dunn R.,
Harrison A. R.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.2307/2986177
Subject(s) - sampling (signal processing) , statistics , mathematics , environmental science , computer science , filter (signal processing) , computer vision
SUMMARY In this paper two‐dimensional systematic sampling of land use is considered. Data for two study areas which provide a complete enumeration of land use, and which are held in digital form, are a basis for a series of sampling experiments. First, the efficiency of systematic sampling is compared with other schemes. Second, these results are related to the autocorrelation functions of the data. Third, methods for estimating sampling error from a single sample are assessed. The results reported here confirm the statistical efficiency of systematic sampling but also highlight some important unresolved issues of this approach.