Systematic sampling, the classical approach to the estimation of areas by point-counting techniques, is compared to stratified random sampling and to systematic sampling with multiple random starts.

Systematic sampling is very convenient in many practical situations, but does not provide a satisfactory estimator of the variance of the sample mean except when additional assumptions are made. A ...

Systematic and random sampling Systematic sampling means testing a hypothesis by taking several equally spaced items from a larger list, eg selecting the tenth, 20th and 30th visitor to a theme park.