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Sampling is a crucial step in analytical chemistry, allowing researchers to collect representative data from a large population. Common sampling methods include random, judgmental, systematic, stratified, and cluster sampling.
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Distributionally balanced sampling designs.

Anton Grafström¹, Wilmer Prentius¹

¹Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden.

|July 10, 2026

Summary

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Distributionally Balanced Designs (DBD) create representative samples by matching the full auxiliary distribution, not just moments. This method improves estimate reliability for costly field data collection in environmental sciences.

Keywords:

balanced sampling energy distance probability sampling spatial sampling systematic sampling variance reduction

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Area of Science:

Environmental science
Ecology
Forestry
Statistical sampling

Background:

Field data collection in environmental sciences is expensive.
Maximizing information from limited samples is crucial.
Traditional methods may not capture full distributional representativeness.

Purpose of the Study:

Introduce Distributionally Balanced Designs (DBD) for probability sampling.
Target representativeness at the full auxiliary distribution level.
Improve survey reliability in resource-constrained settings.

Main Methods:

DBD minimizes discrepancy between sample and population auxiliary distributions.
Uses an optimized circular ordering and contiguous block selection.
Employs energy distance to minimize distributional differences beyond moments.

Main Results:

Proposed DBD method achieves better distributional fit than existing designs.
Demonstrates improved spatial spread and lower variance for estimators.
Simulation results validate the effectiveness of approximate DBD.

Conclusions:

DBD offers a powerful approach for constructing representative samples.
Enhances the reliability of estimates from costly field data.
Distributional balancing is effective for resource-constrained surveys.