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https://doi.org/10.1899/04-085.1 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1899/04-085.1 Copy URL AbstractTwo-phase sampling provides a statistical framework for combining ...

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, Vol. 23, No. 2 (June 2018), pp. 175-189 (15 pages) Combining information from different sources is an important practical problem in ...

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Let’s imagine that we are studying a species of beetle. The beetles come in many different colors, and we want to know how common the orange (O) coloring is in this population. This population of ...