Re: Neighbor sampling is random?

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Paulo Prado<prado@...> wrote:
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> Thank very much to all.
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> Kingsford's comment remind me that a general way to demonstrate this is
> trough a Dirichlet tessellation.

Indeed -- where calculation of statistics would require weighting by
the inverse of the tile areas (inclusion probabilities)....

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> Best
>
> Paulo
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> Paulo Prado wrote:
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>> Dear r-eco-list users,
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>> This is not an R-question, but a statistical one, but maybe somebody can
>> help.
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>> I had read that to set random points over an area and picking the nearest
>> plant is not random sample, but I could not recover this article.
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>> Is that correct? Could you provide some basic reference?
>>
>> Thanks a lot