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Statistics

Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....

, line-intercept sampling (LIS) is a method of sampling elements in a region whereby an element is sampled if a chosen line segment, called a “transect

Transect

A transect is a path along which one records and counts occurrences of the phenomena of study .It requires an observer to move along a fixed path and to count occurrences along the path and, at the same time, obtain the distance of the object from the path...

”, intersects the element .

Line intercept sampling has proven to be a reliable, versatile, and easy to implement method to analyze an area containing various objects of interest . It has recently also been applied to estimating variances during particulate material sampling .