Modeling and prediction of forest growth variables based on multilevel nonlinear mixed models

Forest Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 311-321

  Hall, D B ^a   Bailey, R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimating equations; Random effects; Repeated measures; Site index; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; LINEARIZATION;

PLOT AVERAGES;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0035184667     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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