Bayesian melding of a forest ecosystem model with correlated inputs

Forest Science

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 701-711

  Radtke, P J ^a   Burk, T E ^b   Bolstad, P V ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian melding; Big leaf model; Latin hypercube; Model evaluation; Process model; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ECOSYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN MELDING;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0036846065     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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