Use of confidence intervals to demonstrate performance against forest management standards

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 247, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 237-245

  Walshe, Terry ^a   Wintle, Brendan ^a   Fidler, Fiona ^a   Burgman, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Forest management standards; Monitoring; Performance communication; Statistical power; Type I and Type II error

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FOREST MANAGEMENT STANDARDS; PERFORMANCE COMMUNICATION; STATISTICAL POWER;

DATA REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ERROR ANALYSIS; STANDARDS;

FORESTRY;

ALARM SIGNAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SILVICULTURE; STAKEHOLDER;

ERRORS; FORESTRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34447281785     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.04.048     Document Type: Article

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