Re: [R-sig-eco] Neighbor sampling is random?

2009-07-05 Thread Paulo Prado
Thank very much to all. Kingsford's comment remind me that a general way to demonstrate this is trough a Dirichlet tessellation. Best Paulo Paulo Prado wrote: Dear r-eco-list users, This is not an R-question, but a statistical one, but maybe somebody can help. I had read that to

[R-sig-eco] Neighbor sampling is random?

2009-07-04 Thread Paulo Inácio de Knegt López de Prado
Dear r-eco-list users, This is not an R-question, but a statistical one, but maybe somebody can help. I had read that to set random points over an area and picking the nearest plant is not random sample, but I could not recover this article. Is that correct? Could you provide some basic

Re: [R-sig-eco] Neighbor sampling is random?

2009-07-04 Thread Jari Oksanen
] Neighbor sampling is random? Dear r-eco-list users, This is not an R-question, but a statistical one, but maybe somebody can help. I had read that to set random points over an area and picking the nearest plant is not random sample, but I could not recover this article. Is that correct? Could you

Re: [R-sig-eco] Neighbor sampling is random?

2009-07-04 Thread Salvador Sánchez-Colón
of the first who wrote about this. Check her book 'Mathematical ecology' (J. Wiley, 1977). Best wishes, Jari Oksanen -Original Message- From: Paulo Inácio de Knegt López de Prado Sent: 04.07.2009, 17:35 To: r-sig-ecology@r-project.org Subject: [R-sig-eco] Neighbor sampling is random