Sampling Cost Advisor

Sampling Cost Advisor (SCA) version 1.0 is a software tool designed to facilitate the cost-effective and defensible evaluation of environmental sampling plans. It provides the user with quick and easy sampling-cost comparisons for seventy-five scenarios for a number of standard sampling designs. SCA version 1.0 is designed to utilize the widely available and intuitive spreadsheet user-interface in Microsoft Excel.

• How to use SCA

Sampling-design spreadsheets for the following statistical methods can be downloaded as a zip file:

• One-Sample t-Test
• Two-Sample t-Test
• Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test
• One-Sample Proportion Test
• Two-Sample Proportion Test
• Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test
• MARSSIM Sign Test
• MARSSIM WRS Test

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