N. BALAKRISHNAN, PHD, is Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University, Canada. Dr. Balakrishnan is coeditor of Wiley's Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Second Edition and also serves as Editor in Chief of Communications in Statistics. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. In addition to serving as Editor of the Methods and Applications of Statistics series, Dr. Balakrishnan is the coauthor of Precedence-Type Tests and Applications and A Primer on Statistical Distributions, both published by Wiley.

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• Preface vContributors 11 Adaptive Sampling 12 Agricultural Surveys 83 Allometry 204 Atmospheric Statistics 275 Capture—Recapture Methods—I 356 Capture-Recapture Methods—II 437 Cluster Sampling 508 Distance Sampling 539 Ecological Statistics 5910 Environmental Statistics 6711 Estimation of Species Richness and Shared Species Richness 7612 Geographic Information Systems 11213 Geostatistics 12114 Landsat Data Analysis in Crop Area Estimation 13015 Latin Hypercube Sampling 14016 Line Intercept Sampling 14617 Line Transect Sampling 14818 Methods for Drought Analysis and Forecasting 15019 Ranked Set Sampling Methodology for Environmental Data 18520 Spatial Data Analysis 21221 Spatial Processes 21622 Spatial Sampling 22323 Statistics in Agriculture 22824 Statistics in Animal Science 23225 Statistics in Biogeography 23926 Statistics in Fisheries Research 24627 Statistics in Forestry 25128 Statistics in Geography 26629 Statistics in Geology 27230 Statistics in Geophysics 27631 Statistics in Ornithology 29232 Stereology 30433 Stylometry 31034 Systematic Sampling 31835 Traffic Flow Problems 32236 Transect Methods 32637 Weather Modification—I 33138 Weather Modification—II 33839 Wildlife Sampling 349Index 354

N. BALAKRISHNAN, PHD, is Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University, Canada. Dr. Balakrishnan is coeditor of Wiley's Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Second Edition and also serves as Editor in Chief of Communications in Statistics. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. In addition to serving as Editor of the Methods and Applications of Statistics series, Dr. Balakrishnan is the coauthor of Precedence-Type Tests and Applications and A Primer on Statistical Distributions, both published by Wiley.

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• Preface vContributors 11 Adaptive Sampling 12 Agricultural Surveys 83 Allometry 204 Atmospheric Statistics 275 Capture—Recapture Methods—I 356 Capture-Recapture Methods—II 437 Cluster Sampling 508 Distance Sampling 539 Ecological Statistics 5910 Environmental Statistics 6711 Estimation of Species Richness and Shared Species Richness 7612 Geographic Information Systems 11213 Geostatistics 12114 Landsat Data Analysis in Crop Area Estimation 13015 Latin Hypercube Sampling 14016 Line Intercept Sampling 14617 Line Transect Sampling 14818 Methods for Drought Analysis and Forecasting 15019 Ranked Set Sampling Methodology for Environmental Data 18520 Spatial Data Analysis 21221 Spatial Processes 21622 Spatial Sampling 22323 Statistics in Agriculture 22824 Statistics in Animal Science 23225 Statistics in Biogeography 23926 Statistics in Fisheries Research 24627 Statistics in Forestry 25128 Statistics in Geography 26629 Statistics in Geology 27230 Statistics in Geophysics 27631 Statistics in Ornithology 29232 Stereology 30433 Stylometry 31034 Systematic Sampling 31835 Traffic Flow Problems 32236 Transect Methods 32637 Weather Modification—I 33138 Weather Modification—II 33839 Wildlife Sampling 349Index 354