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In order to demonstrate the difference between the sampling situation in the analysis of diversity and more classical sampling schemes, let us first reconsider Example 1.5., the heights of the adult male population in a city. The population mean and variance are defined by
In a random sample from this population, let the observed heights be Y1, Y2,…,YN.Then
are unbiased estimators of ȳ and σ2 respectively.
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Engen, S. (1978). Sampling from a population of classes. In: Engen, S. (eds) Stochastic Abundance Models. Monographs on Applied Probability and Statistics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5784-8_2
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