Prepare to transform your understanding of sampling and enrich your research work with innovative and effective tools. Whether you are a researcher, student, or curious individual, this book allows you to delve into an essential work that revolutionizes multidimensional sampling of the environment.Explore the fundamental concepts, theorems, methods, and algorithms necessary for a practical approach to first- order multidimensional balanced error sampling, while taking into account various constraints such as the number of samples, study area (which may be a surface or a volume), as well as the expected variability of the analyzed properties.With a rigorous and detailed mathematical approach, this work applies to an infinite number of dimensions, thus offering limitless ...
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CHAPTER 1. Essential mathematical concepts 5 1.0. Overview 5 1.1. Mathematical Basis 5 1.2. First order sample error, sample data variability sample spacing and the Sample Error Theorem 12 1.3. Maximum error of cells for a tessellation given a positive variability bound for its data cells 26
CHAPTER 2. Extending 1-D results to 2-D. 35 2.0. The development of semi-balanced tessellations in any dimension 35 2.1. Extending one-dimensional results to two dimensions 40 2.2. Symmetries of coordinates 65
CHAPTER 3. Extending 2D Results to K dimensions 67 3.0. Extending to K dimensions 67 3.1. Properties of the transformation ( ) :[ , ] [ , ] K F x a b ? a b 88 3.2. The semi-balanced property of the transformed K-cells 96
CHAPTER 4. Practical methodology 99 4.0. Introduction to practical multidimensional balanced error sampling 99 4.1. Basic summary of mathematical concepts and results 100 4.2. Practical Methodology 108 4.3. Determining a variability bound from sample data sets 110 4.4. Analyzing maximum sample error versus sample size 116 4.5. Determining a semi-balanced tessellation with M 2-cells given the variability Bound B(x) 119 4.6. Interpolation using the semi-balanced pattern of points produced by the transformation 2 F (x) :[a, b]?[a, b] 125
SUMMARY and CONCLUSIONS 131
REFERENCES 133
EXPANDED TABLE OF CONTENTS 135
INDEX 139
Prepare to transform your understanding of sampling and enrich your research work with innovative and effective tools. Whether you are a researcher, student, or curious individual, this book allows you to delve into an essential work that revolutionizes multidimensional sampling of the environment.Explore the fundamental concepts, theorems, methods, and algorithms necessary for a practical approach to first- order multidimensional balanced error sampling, while taking into account various constraints such as the number of samples, study area (which may be a surface or a volume), as well as the expected variability of the analyzed properties.With a rigorous and detailed mathematical approach, this work applies to an infinite number of dimensions, thus offering limitless practical application perspectives. The results presented here illuminate and systematize practices that have often been intuitive until now, paving the way for new sampling design methods suitable for many research fields, particularly in environmental studies.