Parameter estimation of base-age invariant site index models: Which data structure to use? - Reply

Forest Science

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-133

  Wang, Mingliang ^a,b   Borders, Bruce E ^a   Zhao, Dehai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

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