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1 2006, Timothy G. Gregoire, Yale University Last Revised: November 2006 Sampling with Partial Replacement Bibliography 1942-Present 1. Jessen, R. J. (1942) Statistical Investigation of a Sample Survey for Obtaining Farm Facts. Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Agricultural Experiment Station, Research Bulletin 304. (for SPR material, see 54-59). 2. Patterson, R. D. (1950) Sampling on Successive Occasions with Partial Replacement or Units. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 12: Cochran, W. G. and S. P. Carroll. (1953) A Sampling Investigation of the Efficiency of Weighing Inversely as the Estimated Variance. Biometrics, 9: Meier, P. (1953) Variance of a Weighted Mean. Biometrics 9: Narain, R. D. (1953) Research Notes on the Recurrence Formula in Sampling on Successive Occasions. Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, 5: Tikkiwal, B. D. (1953) Optimum Allocation in Successive Sampling. Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, 5: Graybill, F. A. and R. B. Deal. (1959) Combining Unbiased Estimators. Biometrics, December: Hall, O. F. (1959) The Contribution of Remeasured Sample Plots to the Precision of Growth Estimates. Journal of Forestry, 57(11): Ware, K. D. (1960) Optimum Regression Sampling Design for Sampling of Forest Populations on Successive Occasions. Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University. 10. Ware, K. D. and T. Cunia. (1962) Continuous Forest Inventory With Partial Replacement of Samples. Forest Science. Monograph #3: Bickford, C. A. (1963) On Successive Forest Inventories. Division of Forest Management Proceedings, pg Bickford, C. A., C. E. Mayer, and K. D. Ware. (1963) An Efficient Sampling Design for Forest Inventory: The Northeastern Forest Resurvey. Journal of Forestry 61: Kulldorf, G. (1963) Some Problems of Optimum Allocation for Sampling on Two Occasions. Review of the International Statistical Institute, 31: Cunia, T. (1964) What Is Sampling with Partial Replacement and Why Use It in Continuous Forest Inventory. Division of Forest Mensuration Proceedings, pg Rao, J. N. K. and J. E. Graham. (1964) Rotation Designs for Sampling on Repeated

2 Occasions. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 59: Tikkiwal, B. D. (1964) A Note On Two-Stage Sampling On Successive Occasions. The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series A, 26: Cunia, T. (1965) Continuous Forest Inventory, Partial Replacement of Samples and Multiple Regression. Forest Science, 11(4): Raj, D. (1965) On A Method of Using Multi-Auxiliary Information In Sample Surveys. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 60: Raj, D. (1965) On Sampling Over Two Occasions With Probability Proportionate To Size. Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 36: Singh, D. and D. Singh (1965) Double sampling for stratification on successive occasions. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 60: Frayer, W. E. (1966) Weighted Regression In Successive Forest Inventories. Forest Science, 12: Frayer, W. E. and G. M. Furnival. (1967) Area Change Estimates From Sampling With Partial Replacement. Forest Science, 13: Abraham, T. P., R. K. Khosla, and O. P. Kathuria. (1969) Some Investigations on the Use of Successive Sampling in Pest and Disease Surveys. Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, 21(2): Cunia, T. and R. B. Chevrou. (1969) Sampling With Partial Replacement On Three or More Occasions. Forest Science, 15: Ghangurde, P. D. and J. N. K. Rao. (1969) Some Results On Sampling Over Two Occasions. Sankhyā, 31: Wensel, L. E. and H. H. John. (1969) A Statistical Procedure for Combining Different Types of Sampling Units In a Forest Inventory. Forest Science, 15: Avadhani, M. S. and B. V. Sukhatme. (1970) A Comparison of Two Sampling Procedures with an Application to Successive Sampling. Applied Statistics, 19: Frayer, W. E., R. C. VanAken, and R. D. Sullivan. (1971) Application of Sampling with Partial Replacement to Timber Inventories, Central Rocky Mountains. Forest Science, 17: Sen, A. R. (1971) Successive Sampling With Two Auxiliary Variables. Sankhyā, 33:

3 30. Singh, R. (1972) On Pathak and Rao's Estimate in PPS With Replacement Sampling Over Two Occasions. Sankhyā, 34: Blight, B. J. N. and A. J. Scott. (1973) A Stochastic Model for Repeated Surveys. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 35: Sen, A. R. (1973) Some Theory of Sampling on Successive Occasions. Australian Journal of Statistics, 15: Sen, A. R. (1973) Theory and Application of Sampling on Repeated Occasions with Several Auxiliary Variables. Biometrics, pg Chotai, J. (1974) A Note on the Rao-Hartley-Cochran Method for PPS Sampling Over Two Occasions. The Indian Journal of Statistics, 36: Frayer, W. E. and J. E. Barnard. (1974) Experiences with Sampling with Partial Replacement in the United States. Prepared for IUFRO Conference, June 25-29, 1973, Nancy, France. 36. Hazard, J. W. & L. C. Promnitz (1974) Design of successive forest inventories: optimization by convex mathematical programming. Forest Science 20(2) Newton, C. M., T. Cunia, and C. A. Bickford. (1974) Multivariate Estimators for Sampling with Partial Replacement on Two Occasions. Forest Science, 20: Barnard, J. E. (1975) Sampling with Partial Replacement Contrasted with Complete Remeasurement Inventory Designs: An Empirical Examination. In: Proceedings Monitoring Forest Environment Through Successive Sampling ( T. Cunia, ed.) Joint IUFRO S4.02 and SAF Inventory Working Group Symposium, Syracuse, NY, June Kathuria, O. P. (1975) Some Estimators in Two-Stage Sampling on Successive Occasions with Partial Matching at Both Stages. The Indian Journal of Statistics, 37: Sen, A. R. and T. M. Gerig. (1975) Estimation of Population Means Having Equal Coefficient of Variation on Successive Occasions. International Statistical Institute Bulletin, 46(4): Cunia, T. (1976) Statistical Advances in the Methodology of Forest Inventory. XVI IUFRO World Congress, Oslo, Norway. 42. Chakrabarty, R. P. and D. S. Rana. (1977) Joint Estimates of Change and Mean in Multi- Stage Sampling On Successive Occasions II. 41st Session of the International Statistical Institute, Contributed Paper 47: Chaudhuri, A. and R. Arnab. (1977) On the Relative Efficiencies of a Few Strategies of Sampling with Varying Probabilities on Two Occasions. Calcutta Statistical Association 3

4 Bulletin, 26: Hazard, J. W Estimating area in sampling forest populations on two successive occasions. Forest Science 23(2) Schmid-Haas, P. (ed.). (1977) Inventories on Successive Occasions. Swiss Federal Institute of Forestry Research, CH 8903 Birmensdorf, Reports #171, 94 pages. 46. Barnard, J. E. (1978) Example of a Specific Regional Inventory: The United States Northeastern Double Sampling with Partial Replacement Design. Paper Presented IUFRO "National Forest Inventory", Bucharest, Romania, June Matis, K. and J. C. Hetherington. (1978?) A com;puter simulation approach to sampling with partial replacment. (source unknown) (pp ). 48. Arnab, R. (1979) On Strategies of Sampling Finite Populations on Successive Occasions with Varying Probabilities. The Indian Journal of Statistics, 41: Dixon, B. L. and R. E. Howitt. (1979) Continuous Forest Inventory Using a Linear Filter. Forest Science, 25: Tripathi, T. P. and O. P. Srivastava. (1979) Estimation on Successive Occasions Using PPS WR Sampling. The Indian Journal of Statistics, 41: Arnab, R. (1980) Two-stage sampling over two occasions. Australian Journal of Statistics, 22(3) Jones, R. G. (1980) Best Linear Unbiased Estimators for Repeated Surveys. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 42: Matérn, B. (1980). Comments on the precision of the estimated change in successive forest inventories. In: Growth of Single Trees and Development of Stands, proceedings of the joint meeting of the S and S workign parties of IUFRO. Mitteilungen der Forstlichen Bundes-Versuchsanstalt, Wien (Vienna?). 130 Heft. (pp ). 54. Rao, J. N. K. (1980) Estimating the Common Mean of Possibly Different Normal Populations: A Simulation Study. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 75: Singh, R. (1980) A Modified PPSWR Scheme for Sampling Over Two Occasions. The Indian Journal of Statistics, 42: Arnab, R. (1981) Sampling on two occasions with varying probabilities. Australian Journal of Statistics, 23(3) Kilpatrick, D. J. (1981) Optimum Allocation in Stratified Sampling of Forest Populations 4

5 on Successive Occasions. Forest Science, 27: Nyyssönen, A. (1981) Remeasurement of Sample Plots in Management Plan Inventories: Some Experiences XVII IUFRO World Congress, Japan. 59. Omule, S. A. Y. (1981) Successive Forest Inventories Using Multistage Sampling with Partial Replacement of Units. Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, The University of British Columbia. 60. Schmid-Haas, P. (1981) Monitoring change with combined sampling on aerial photographs and on the ground. In: Arid Land Resource Inventories: Developing Cost-efficient Methods (H. G. Lund, et al, eds.). U. S. D. A. Forest Service General Technical Report WO-28. (pp ). 61. Scott, C. T. (1981) Simplified Estimators for Sampling with Partial Replacement on Multiple Occasions. Staff Paper Series Number #23, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN. 62. Titus, S. J. (1981) A Useful Function for Making Growth Estimates with Partial Replacement Sampling. Resource Evaluation Newsletter, Technical Article 3: Omule, S.A.Y. and A. Kozak. (1982) Estimators for successive forest sampling with partial replacement. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 12: Omule, S. A. Y. and D. H. William. (1982) Optimum allocation by dynamic programming for sampling on successive occasions with partial replacement of units. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 12: Matis, K. G., J. C. Hetherington and J. Y Kassab. (1984) Sampling with Partial Replacement - A Literature Review. Commonwealth Forest Review, 63(3): Omule, S. A. Y. (1984) Multistage sampling with partial replacement. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 14: Scott, C. T. (1984) A New Look at Sampling with Partial Replacement. Forest Science, 30: Houllier, F. (1985). Successive inventories in the forest: theoretical advantages and practical limits of sampling with partial replacement. Annales des Sciences Forestières. 42(3) Scott, C. T. (1986) An Evaluation of Sampling with Partial Replacement. In: Use of Auxillary Information in Natural Resource Inventories, (R. G. Oderwald, H. E. Burkhart, T. E. Burk, eds.). SAF Publication No , Blacksburg, VA, October 1-2, Shikui, P. (1986) A Comparison of replacement strategies in continuous forest 5

6 inventory. Silva Fennica, 20: Ranneby, B., T. Cruse, B. Hägglund, H. Jonasson, and J. Swärd. (1987) Designing a new national forest survey for Sweden. Studia Forestalia Suecica, No. 177, 29 p. 72. Schreuder, H. T., H. G. Li, and C. T. Scott. (1987) Jackknife and Bootstrap Estimation for Sampling with Partial Replacement. Forest Science, 33: Song, X. (1989) Continuous Forest Inventory with Bayesian Estimation. Forest Statistics (D. R. Pelz, Ed.) Proceedings of the conference on forest statistics, IUFRO 6.02, Freiburg, Germany. 74. Van Deusen, P. C. (1989) Multiple-Occasion Partial Replacement Sampling for Growth Components. Forest Science, 35: Fuller, W. A. (1990) Analysis of Repeated Surveys. Survey Methodology, 16(2): Kangas, A. (1991) Updated measurement data as prior information in forest inventory. Silva Fennica, 25: Scott, C. T. and M. Köhl. (1993) A method for comparing sampling design alternatives for extensive surveys. Mitteilungen der Eidgengessischen Anstalt fuer Wald, Schnee und Landschaft, Birmensdorf, Band 69, Heft 1., 62 p. 78. Scott, C. T. and M. Köhl. (1994) Sampling with Partial Replacement and Stratification. Forest Science, 40: Prasad, N. G. N. and J. E. Graham. (1994) PPS Sampling over Two Occasions. Survey Methodology, 20: Ranneby, B. and E. Rovainen. (1995) On the determination of time intervals between remeasurements of permanent plots. Forest Ecology and Management, 71: Bokalo, M., S. J. Titus, and D. P. Wiens. (1996) Sampling with partial replacement extended to include growth projections. Forest Science, 42(3): Scott, C. T Sampling methods for estimating change in forest resources. Ecological Applications 8(2) Scott, C.T., M. Kohl, and H.J. Schnellbacher. (1999) A comparison of periodic and annual forest surveys. Forest Science, 45(3): Köhl, M. and C.T. Scott A comparison of periodic versus permanent surveys. In: Proc. Integrated Tools for Natural Resources Inventories in the 21st Century. Burk, T.E. and M.H. Hansen, ed., Boise, ID. USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station, 6

7 St. Paul, MN. GTR-NC-212. p Xie, S.X., D. Liao, and V.M. Chinchilli. (2001) Measurement error reduction using weighted average method for repeated measurements from heterogeneous instruments. Environmentrics, 12:

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