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The bootstrap can be used to assess uncertainty of sample estimates. We have previously discussed the importance of estimating uncertainty in our measurements and incorporating it into data analysis 1 ...

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Recording every individual in a population is impractical, unnecessary, and expensive (Magurran 1988). Instead community ecologists and scientists in general take replicated samples to represent the ...

Understanding the differences between convenience, target, and self-selected samples. Representative samples and sampling are addressed multiple times in the cGMPs. For example, in Part 21 of the Code ...

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