Assessing uncertainty in a stand growth model by Bayesian synthesis

Forest Science

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 528-538

  Green, Edwin J ^a   MacFarlane, David W ^a   Valentine, Harry T ^b   Strawderman, William E ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Loblolly pine; Mechanistic models; Posterior distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032733766     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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