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Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a serious social and medical problem in the elderly. Mortality, hospitalization and length of stay increase with age. The aim of this study was to determine the risk facto...
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The use of replicated plot, line and point sampling for estimating species abundance and ecological diversity
The paper deals with the problem of estimating diversity indexes for an ecological community. First the species abundances are unbiasedly and consistently estimated using designs based on n random and independ...
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Design-Based Approaches for Inference on Diversity
A number of measures have been proposed to quantify species diversity in a community from theoretical, mathematical or ecological point of views. For an updated review of these proposals see Gove et al. (1994)...
