Poisson-Poisson and binomial-Poisson sampling in forestry - ARCHIVED

Binomial-Poisson and Poisson-Poisson sampling are introduced for use in forest sampling. Several estimators of the population total are discussed for these designs. Simulation comparisons of the properties of the estimators were made for three small forestry populations. A modification of the standard estimator used for Poisson sampling and a new estimator, called a modified Srivastava estimator, appear to be most efficient. The latter is unfortunately badly biased for all 3 populations.