Estimating riparian understory vegetation cover with beta regression and copula models

Forest Science

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 212-221

  Eskelson, Bianca N I ^a   Madsen, Lisa ^a   Hagar, Joan C ^b   Temesgen, Hailemariam ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta regression; Gaussian copula; Shrub cover; Spatial copula

Indexed keywords

BETA DISTRIBUTIONS; BETA REGRESSION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRITICAL COMPONENT; ERROR VARIANCE; EXPLANATORY POWER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FORESTED LANDSCAPES; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; GAUSSIAN COPULA; GENERALIZED LEAST SQUARE; HETEROSCEDASTIC; LEAST SQUARE; MEAN SQUARE; PARAMETER ESTIMATE; PREDICTION ERRORS; REGRESSION MODEL; RIPARIAN ZONES; SHRUB COVER; SIMULATION STUDIES; SPATIAL COPULA; SPATIAL DEPENDENCE; STANDARD ERRORS; THREE PARAMETERS; TOPOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS; UNDERSTORY VEGETATION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

VEGETATION;

DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETERS; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHRUBS; SIMULATION;

EID: 84863560490     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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