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Bootstrap Confidence Intervals From Adaptive Sampling Of An Insect Population, Jeffrey S. Pontius, Mary C. Christman
Bootstrap Confidence Intervals From Adaptive Sampling Of An Insect Population, Jeffrey S. Pontius, Mary C. Christman
Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture
We construct 90% normal, percentile, and bias-corrected and accelerated confidence intervals using a finite population bootstrapping algorithm based on adaptive sampling in an agroecosystem. We evaluate the interval estimates based on sampling simulations of a spatially arranged population of plots that contain counts of beet webworms and based on an adaptive condition that generates small networks. The sampling distributions of the original sample estimates and of the bootstrap estimates were generally similar and symmetric. The simulation coverages were from 84% to 90% and similar under any of the sample sizes and any of the three confidence interval types. This study …