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Each technique took about the same amount of time sampling: systematic took 12.37H, random took 12.36H, and haphazard took 12.44H.
The most common species was Eastern Hemlock, next was Sweet Birch. Systematically sampling easter hemlock gave a 7.4% sample error and systematically sampling Sweet Birch gave 17.2%. Randomly sampling Eastern Hemlock gave 2.2% sample error and randomly sampling Sweet Birch gave 14.1%. Haphazardly sampling Eastern Hemlock gave 40% and 22% for Sweet Birch. Therefore the least amount of sample error came from the random sample and the most came from haphazardly sampling.
The lease common species was White Pine then Striped Maple was a bit less rare. Percent error of systematically testing White Pine was 70% and it was 100% for Striped Maple. Percent error of randomly sampling was 60% for White Pine and 100% for Striped Maple. Percent error for systematically sampling was 70% for White Pine and 120% for Striped Maple. None of these methods proved to be accurate enough to use in a proper data set. But randomly sampling had the least percent error for White Pine.
The more abundant the species it, the more accurate the sampling is. To increase accuracy, the number of samples taken can be increased.
