INGROWTH IMPUTATION IN EVEN-AGED PERMANENT SAMPLE PLOTS

Oscar Garcia

Abstract


In forest sample plots, it is common to measure only trees that are larger than some minimum size. This fact needs to be considered when using such truncated samples. I describe here a procedure for imputing the presence and sizes of the missing trees. Computer code is included.

Keywords


Missing data, truncation, forest growth and yield, data processing, tree mea- surements, R language.

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