Base-age invariance properties of two techniques for estimating the parameters of site index models

Forest Science

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 182-186

  Strub, Mike ^a,b   Cieszewski, Chris J ^b  

^a WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANAMORPHIC FORM; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARED ERROR; SITE-SPECIFIC PARAMETERS;

FORESTRY;

ERRORS; ESTIMATES; FORESTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646191062     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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