Weighting for the USDA Forest Service, National Woodland Owner Survey

Released on by Brett J. Butler
preview-18

  • Weighting for the USDA Forest Service, National Woodland Owner Survey Book Detail

  • Author : Brett J. Butler
  • Release Date : 2021
  • Publisher :
  • Genre :
  • Pages : 30
  • ISBN 13 :
  • File Size : 39,39 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Weighting for the USDA Forest Service, National Woodland Owner Survey by Brett J. Butler PDF Summary

Book Description: The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service's National Woodland Owner Survey (NWOS) collects information on the attitudes, behaviors, and general characteristics of private forest ownerships across the United States. An area-based sample design that results in inclusion probabilities proportional to size of forest holdings is used to select ownerships to participate in the survey. In order to make accurate population-level estimates, this sample design must be incorporated into the estimators. In this report, a weighting approach for generating estimates of totals, means, proportions, and quartiles from NWOS data in terms of ownerships and acreages is presented, along with a bootstrapping approach for estimation of the associated variances. In addition to presenting a theoretical justification for the approach, the estimators are validated using data from a fully enumerated population. An R package for implementing the estimators is available on GitHub (https://github.com/familyforestresearchcenter/nwos).

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Weighting for the USDA Forest Service, National Woodland Owner Survey books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.