A parameter recovery model for estimating black spruce diameter distributions within the context of a stand density management diagram

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 349-358

  Newton, P F ^a   Lei, Y ^b   Zhang, S Y ^c  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^c FORINTEK CANADA CORP   (Canada)

Author keywords

3 parameter Weibull probability density function; Algorithm; Internet; Predictive error; Product value; Stepwise and seemingly unrelated regression

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

STAND DENSITY MANAGEMENT DIAGRAM (SDMD);

FORESTRY;

ALGORITHM; DECIDUOUS FOREST; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STAND STRUCTURE;

PICEA; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 3242742298     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc80349-3     Document Type: Article

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