Brus D.J. Spatial Sampling with R

CRC Press, 2022. — 549 p. — (The R Series).Scientific research often starts with data collection. However, many researchers pay insufficient attention to this first step in their research. The author, the researcher at Wageningen University and Research, often had to conclude that the data collected by fellow researchers were suboptimal, or in some cases even unsuitable for their aim. One reason is that sampling is frequently overlooked in statistics courses. Another reason is the lack of practical textbooks on sampling. Numerous books have been published on the statistical analysis and modeling of data using R, but to date, no book has been published in this series on how these data can best be collected. This book fills this gap. Spatial Sampling with R presents an overview of sampling designs for spatial sample survey and monitoring. It shows how to implement the sampling designs and how to estimate (sub)population- and space-time parameters in R.