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Neighbor sampling is random?

2 messages · Jari Oksanen, Salvador Sánchez-Colón

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E. C. Pielou may be one of the first who wrote about this. Check her book 'Mathematical ecology' (J. Wiley, 1977). 

Best wishes, Jari Oksanen
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From: Paulo In?cio de Knegt L?pez de Prado
Sent:  04.07.2009, 17:35 
To: r-sig-ecology at r-project.org
Subject: [R-sig-eco] Neighbor sampling is random?

Dear r-eco-list users,

This is not an R-question, but a statistical one, but maybe somebody can help.

I had read that to set random points over an area and picking the nearest
plant is not random sample, but I could not recover this article.

Is that correct? Could you provide some basic reference?

Thanks a lot

Paulo

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Quite right, she did in there. Just for Paulo's file in case he does not 
manage to find that old (but most enlightening) book: That sampling 
scheme leads to an over-representation of isolated plants; that is, 
those plants have a higher probability of being included in the sample.

Muito pracer,

Salvador

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