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Mast, R. F., G. L. Dolton, R. A. Crovelli, D. H. Root, E. D. Attanasi, P. E. Martin,
L. W. Cooke, G. B. Carpenter, W. C. Pecora, and M. B. Rose. 1989. Estimates
of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources in the United States—A part
of the nation’s energy endowment. U.S. Geol. Survey and Minerals Mgmt.
Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. Interior.
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17. Paris, France: IUGS.
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reserves of western Canada. Can. J. Earth Sci., 6 (2):201–211.
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distributions. In Optimizing methods in statistics, ed. J. S. Rustagi, 413–430.
New York, NY: Academic Press.
Osadetz, K. G., P. J. Lee, P. K. Hannigan, and K. Olsen–Heise. 1995. Natural gas
resources of foreland belt of the Cordilleran orogen in Canada, 345–348. Geol.
Survey Canada Open fi le no. 3058. Ottawa, Canada: Natural Resources
Canada.
Patil, G. P., and C. R. Rao. 1977. The weighted distributions—A survey and their
applications. In Application of statistics, ed. P. R. Krishnaiah, 383–405.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: North-Holland.
Patil, G .P., and C. R. Rao. 1978. Weighted distributions and size-biased sampling
with applications to wildlife populations and human families. Biometrics 34
(2):179–189.
Podruski, J. A., J. E. Barclay, A. P. Hamblin, P. J. Lee, K. G. Osadetz, R. M.
Procter, and G. C. Taylor. 1988. Conventional oil resources of western Canada.
Part I. Resource endowment, 1–125. Geol. Survey Canada Paper no. 87–26.
Ottawa, Canada: Natural Resources Canada.
Power, M. 1992. Lognormality in the observed size distribution of oil and gas as a
consequence of sampling bias. Math. Geology 24 (8):929–946.
Reinson, G. E., P. J. Lee, W. Warters, K. G. Osadetz, L. L. Bell, P. R. Price, F.
Trollope, R. I. Campbell, and J. E. Barclay. 1993. Devonian gas resources of
Western Canada Sedimentary Basin—Play defi nition and resource assessment. Geol. Survey Canada Bull. 452. Ottawa, Canada: Natural Resources
Canada.
Rice, D. D. 1986. Oil and gas assessment—Methods and applications. Am. Assoc.
Pet. Geologists Studies in geology no. 21. Tulsa, OK: AAPG.
Roy, K. J. 1979. Hydrocarbon assessment using subjective probability and Monte
Carlo methods. In Methods and models for assessing energy resources, ed. M.
Grenon, 279–290. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press.
Schuenemeyer, J. H., and L. J. Drew. 1983. A procedure to estimate the parent
population of the size of oil and gas fi elds as revealed by a study of economic
truncation. Math. Geology 15 (1):145–162.
Smith, J. L., and G. L. Ward. 1981. Maximum likelihood estimates of the size distribution of North Sea oil fi elds. Math. Geology 13 (5):399–413.