The main purpose of this paper is to present the developments in systematic sampling posterior to the review by Buckland (1951). Emphasis is given to recent asymptotic and optimality results in the ...

The stratified random sample is always at least as accurate on the average as the random sample and its relative efficiency is a monotone increasing function of the size of the sample. No general ...

Systematic sampling using quadrats Sometimes scientists want to link the number of organisms they are sampling to an environmental factor.

An example of this is an investigation into whether the growth of seaweed depends upon the distance it is found on the seashore from the tide. We would use systematic sampling as we are looking to ...