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Accuracy Assessment Preliminary Matrix

                                        COMMISSION ERROR - % CORRECT CONFIDENCE INTERVAL
   
  REFERENCE CLASS TOTAL N
M C   AR BU CP GP KB MK MW PB PC PF PJ PL PS PW WS WW     - +
A L AR 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 100 46.4 100
P A BU 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100 10 100
P S CP 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 100 63.1 100
E S GP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 5 0 0 0
D KB 0 1 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 20 80 63.7 88.6
  MK 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 100 32 100
  MW 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100 10 100
  PB 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 80 41.6 93.4
  PC 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
  PF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 5 0 1 5 3 0 0 19 26.3 13.4 48.1
  PJ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 100 10 100
  PL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 3 0 0 0 20 85 69.3 91.9
  PS 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 12 3 0 0 20 60 42.8 74.3
  PW 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  WS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
  WW 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0
  TOTAL N 4 4 5 1 20 2 1 9 0 5 1 25 21 6 0 0 108  
OMISSION ERROR  
% CORRECT 75 25 100 0 80 100 100 44.4 0 100 100 68 57.1 0 0 0  
90% CONFIDENCE INTERVAL  
- 32.1 2.6 63.1 0 63.7 31.6 10 21.1 0 63.1 10 52.3 41 0 0 0  
+ 92.7 86.2 100 0 88.6 100 100 71.4 0 100 100 79.5 71.4 0 0 0  
   
OVERALL TOTAL ACCURACY = 62.0%  
OVERALL KAPPA INDEX = 56.3%  
OVERALL TOTAL ACCURACY 90% LOWER & UPPER CONFIDENCE INTERVALS: 54.7%, 68.6%  
(OMMISSION & COMMISSION ERRORS CALCULATED USING TOTAL ACCURACY, NOT KAPPA INDEX)  
   
  Key to Map Class Codes  
   
  AR Silver Sage Brush / Western-Wheat Grass Shrub Herbaceous Vegetation PC Prairie Cordgrass Streambank Community  
  BU Green Ash - American Elm / Wolfberry Forest PF Ponderosa Pine / Snowberry Forest  
  CP Eastern Cottonwood - Peach Leaf Willow / Narrow-Leaf Willow Woodland PJ Ponderosa Pine / Common Juniper Woodland  
  GP Great Plains Little Bluestem Prairie PL Ponderosa Pine / Little Bluestem Woodland  
  KB Kentucky Bluegrass Disturbed Community PS Ponderosa Pine / Sun Sedge Woodland  
  MK Mosaic - Kentucky Bluegrass / Little Bluestem Grassland PW Ponderosa Pine / Bearberry Woodland  
  MW Mosaic - Western Wheatgrass / Little Bluestem Grassland WS Wolfberry Shrubland  
  PB Ponderosa Pine / Bur Oak Woodland         WW Western Wheatgrass Grassland                

Table 8. Preliminary Contingency Table for Vegetation Accuracy Assessment

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