Estimation of treatment effects under combined sampling and experimental designs

✍ Scribed by Christina D. Smith; Dallas E. Johnson

• Book ID: 102187814
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 131 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1180-4009
• DOI: 10.1002/env.913

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Over the years, sampling and experimental design have developed independently with little mutual compatibility. However, many studies do (or should) involve both a sampling design and an experimental design. For example, a polluted site may be exhaustively partitioned into area plots, a random sample of plots selected, and the selected plots randomly assigned to three clean‐up regimens. An established estimator that combines sampling and experimental design is presented and its development explained. Properties of this estimator will be derived and some applications of the estimator will be examined. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.