A PRACTICAL LOOK AT THE VARIABLE AREA TRANSECT

A practical look at the variable area transect.

The variable area transect (VAT) is a plotless density estimator that has received little attention in the ecological literature despite having potentially robust estimation properties. VAT allows for density estimations without the lengthy search times associated with other plotless density estimators. In spite of this, little has been written about the effect of varying transect widths on its...

A practical look at ATPG

A Practical Look at Trust

The central problem in thinking about trust is that it can be misplaced: the trustworthy may be mistrusted, and the untrustworthy may be trusted. This potential mismatch leads to practical anxiety and intellectual complexity. I shall argue that normative inquiry and empirical work on trustworthiness are more useful than empirical work on trust for those who seek to place and refuse trust well, ...

Optimization of Variable Area Transect Sampling Using Monte Carlo Simulation

An extensive simulation study was conducted to optimize the number, r, of population members to be encountered from each random starting point in variable area transect (VAT) sampling. The quality of estimation provided by the original calculation formula presented by K. R. Parker in 1979 was compared to another formula that was a Morisita analog intended to reduce bias when sampling aggregated...

A Look at the Challenges of Boundary-Spanner Academic Leaders

The present study was an exploratory sequential mixed method approach, so the qualitative section of the study was done by descriptive phenomenology method. The participants in the qualitative section included academic administrators with managerial experience who by criterion sampling and saturation in the research findings, 12 were selected for the interview. Research tools in the section wer...