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When an experiment is reproduced we almost never obtain exactly the same results. Instead, repeated measurements span a range of values because of biological variability and precision limits of ...

Consider the example in the section "Stratified Sampling". The study population is a junior high school with a total of 4,000 students in grades 7, 8, and 9. Researchers want to know how much these ...

Within the current context of biodiversity loss a number of biodiversity indicators have been developed to help measure the state of nature and how it is changing. However, most indicators are derived ...

In many situations there is interest in parameters (e.g., mean) associated with the response distribution of individual clusters in a finite clustered population. We ...