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Development of an Individual-Tree Basal Area Increment Model using a Linear Mixed-Effects Approach
Published on: July 3, 2020
Abstract:
Abstract The approach underlying the model proposed in this article constitutes a considerable departure from the conventional methods used for the projection of birth series. Instead of following the customary procedure of directly projecting the age-specific fertility rates, they can be derived with this model from only three relatively simple fertility measures, namely, total fertility rate, mean age of fertility, and modal age of fertility. The reduction of the number of fertility parameters offers appreciable operational and analytical advantages. Among these, the most significant is the fact that statistical manipulation is confined to only three fertility measures, all of which are particularly appropriate for the in-depth analysis which is required to provide a rationale for assumptions of future fertility.
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