This aggregated process of allocating survey localities is probably caused by the primary aim of taxonomists, which is to acquire specimens of rare species and/or as many species as possible.
A pseudo-Latin square design was used to allocate survey time to balance the effects of season and year in this subtropical land.
Other objectives might also impinge on the decision about allocating survey effort, such as understanding factors that influence the distribution of the species.
Cross-validation was done by randomly allocating survey locations to 3 groups and undertaking 3 separate runs of the model; 1 of the 3 groups was sequentially omitted, and predicted prevalence at the omitted locations was determined by using the model.
We demonstrate the approach by allocating surveys outside the quarantine area established following the discovery of the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Ontario, Canada.
Deputy County Executive Cheryl Petri said she was unaware of many of the conditions complained about but said the county Legislature allocated $500,000 to survey the courts in the county and come up with a multiyear capital improvement program.
In 1808, two New York assemblymen, Joshua Forman and Benjamin Wright (who himself had drawn maps of the Mohawk River for the ill-fated Western Inland Lock Navigation Company), proposed a bill that would allocate $600 to survey canal routes.
Enumeration proceeded systematically wherein an advance team of supervisors first visited households where they interviewed family members to identify households with eligible individuals and allocated a survey house number.
Thereafter, survey, consent form and request for results data will be linked to participants only via the allocated study ID.
Specifically, as opposed to counterbalancing the order in which the study was presented, participants at Northwestern University were randomly allocated to a survey which either contained one longer study or three shorter studies that were presented in a fixed order.
