A new technique for testing distribution of knowledge and to estimate sampling sufficiency in ethnobiology studies
Autor: | Joabe Gomes de Melo, Alyson Luiz Santos de Almeida, Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros, Rafael Ricardo Vasconcelos da Silva, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Cecília de Fátima Castelo Branco Rangel de Almeida, Thiago Antônio de Sousa Araújo, Marcelo Alves Ramos |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Research design
Cultural Studies Adult Male Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Health (social science) Adolescent Computer science Culture Information Dissemination Ethnobotany Distribution (economics) Health(social science) Ethnobiology Residence Characteristics lcsh:Botany Statistics Humans Family Measure (data warehouse) Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all) business.industry Research outliers Sampling (statistics) lcsh:Other systems of medicine lcsh:RZ201-999 quantitative indices Test (assessment) lcsh:QK1-989 Complementary and alternative medicine selection of informants Research Design Outlier intentional samplings Female General Agricultural and Biological Sciences business Social psychology Brazil |
Zdroj: | Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, Vol 8, Iss 1, p 11 (2012) |
ISSN: | 1746-4269 |
Popis: | Background We propose a new quantitative measure that enables the researcher to make decisions and test hypotheses about the distribution of knowledge in a community and estimate the richness and sharing of information among informants. In our study, this measure has two levels of analysis: intracultural and intrafamily. Methods Using data collected in northeastern Brazil, we evaluated how these new estimators of richness and sharing behave for different categories of use. Results We observed trends in the distribution of the characteristics of informants. We were also able to evaluate how outliers interfere with these analyses and how other analyses may be conducted using these indices, such as determining the distance between the knowledge of a community and that of experts, as well as exhibiting the importance of these individuals' communal information of biological resources. One of the primary applications of these indices is to supply the researcher with an objective tool to evaluate the scope and behavior of the collected data. |
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