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Estimates of gypsy moth populations can be obtained using a ratio of mean frass drop from a forest canopy to mean frass production for individually caged larvae. Appropriate statistical methods for point estimation and confidence intervals have been developed. Those methods included the use of two resampling techniques, the jackknife and the bootstrap. Exact theoretical comparisons of the proposed methods are essentially impossible. This paper evaluates the techniques via computer simulations for a limited number of situations.
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Buonaccorsi, J.P., Liebhold, A.M. (1989). Estimating the Size of Gypsy Moth Populations Using Ratios. In: McDonald, L.L., Manly, B.F.J., Lockwood, J.A., Logan, J.A. (eds) Estimation and Analysis of Insect Populations. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 55. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3664-1_29
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