Effective sample size accounts for the equivalent number of independent observations contained in a sample of correlated data. This notion has been widely studied in the context of univariate spatial variables. In that ...

Three experiments were performed to test if the time and storage conditions of milk samples, the preheating of samples in a water bath, as well as the carryover effect in laboratory analysis equipment could affect the ...

ASTM C1585 is commonly used to determine the absorption and rate of absorption of water in unsaturated hydraulic cement concretes. Unfortunately, a wide range of relative humidities can exist in the samples after this ...

Plant-animal interaction networks provide important information on community organization. One of the most critical assumptions of network analysis is that the observed interaction patterns constitute an adequate sample ...

For studies using respondent driven sampling (RDS), the current practice of collecting a sample twice as large as that used in simple random sampling (SRS) (i.e. design effect of 2.00) may not be sufficient. This paper ...

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) are the most extensively studied types of immunoassay and their application in pesticide residue monitoring is an area with enormous potential for growth. In comparison with ...

Sampling-based motion planning in the field of robot motion planning has provided an effective approach to finding path for even high dimensional configuration space and with the motivation from the concepts of sampling ...

In this paper, we propose the use of the T2 chart with the mixed sampling strategy (MS) to monitor the mean vector of bivariate processes with observations that fit to a first-order vector autoregressive model. With the ...

Resource partitioning, facilitation, and sampling effect are the three mechanisms behind the biodiversity effect, which is depicted usually as the effect of plant-species richness on aboveground net primary production. ...