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Re: mites
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Zachary Huang <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 7 Sep 2004 08:46:35 -0400
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On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:32:42 -0400, James Fischer <
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>I think that MaryAnn and Nancy would advise you to do the counts on
>three consecutive days.  Spreading out the days would fall outside
>the abilities of what I would expect to be the statistical model used.

I am pretty sure that the statistics are ONLY for estimating the #s of mites accurately
on the board by doing a randomly or stratified sampling on the board itself. It has
nothing to do with days.

3 days reduces the random day to day variation...

Zach

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