A study on the effects of multicollinearity, autocorrelation and four sampling designs on the predictive ability of the 1994 and 1995 variable-exponent taper functions

In British Columbia, government, industry and consulting firms have used taper functions since the late sixties. Most recently, Kozak's (1988) variable exponent model has been used since 1989. One practical problem with the model is that, it does not estimate total or merchantable volume wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bartel, Joseph
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/9003