Variance prediction for population size estimation

Design unbiased estimation of population size by stereological methods is an efficient alternative to automatic computer vision methods, which are generally biased. Moreover, stereological methods offer the possibility of predicting the error variance from a single sample. Here we explore the statis...

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Autores: Gómez Pérez, Ana Isabel|||0000-0002-8561-2991, Cruz Rodríguez, Marcos|||0000-0002-4767-530X, Cruz Orive, Luis Manuel|||0000-0002-9355-0911
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/18162
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10902/18162
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cavalieri error variance predictor
Geometric sampling
Monte Carlo resampling
Particle counting
Population size
Split error variance predictor
Systematic quadrats
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Sumario:Design unbiased estimation of population size by stereological methods is an efficient alternative to automatic computer vision methods, which are generally biased. Moreover, stereological methods offer the possibility of predicting the error variance from a single sample. Here we explore the statistical performance of two alternative variance estimators on a dataset of 26 labelled crowd pictures. The empirical mean square errors of the variance predictors are compared by means of Monte Carlo resampling.