Classification and regression tree based survival analysis in oak-dominated forests of Missouri's Ozark highlands

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1740-1748

  Fan, Zhaofei ^a   Kabrick, John M ^a   Shifley, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COMBINATION OF CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE (CART); TREE SIZE; TREE SURVIVAL RATE;

FORESTRY;

CLASSIFICATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL; TREE; TREE RING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORTALITY; QUERCUS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MISSOURI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CARYA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PINUS ECHINATA; QUERCUS ALBA; QUERCUS RUBRA;

EID: 33748912152     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-068     Document Type: Article

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