Using simultaneous regression techniques with individual-tree growth models

Forest Science

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 87-95

  Hasenauer, Hubert ^a   Monserud, Robert A ^b   Gregoire, Timothy G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Austria; Norway spruce; Seemingly unrelated regression; Simultaneous equations bias; Three stage least squares

Indexed keywords

PICEA ABIES;

EID: 0031918077     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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