Using Prior Information in Forest Inventories Use what you know in forest inventories. Don't pretend you can't tell a parking lot from a forest stand. Readily available information and your experience can improve cruise accuracy and save time. Buy $50.00 Free Preview
1 Introduction - Use What You Know Introduction FREE PREVIEW Manual for Using Prior Information in Forest Inventories 2 Usual Volume Estimates Usual Volume Estimates - the usual statistics and condifence intervals 3 How This is Going to Work Using What We Know with Bayesian Methods 4 Spreadsheeet Program to Use Prior Information in Volume Estimates Program Description 5 Specifying Prior Distributions Uniform Prior Distributions - Only minimum and maximum needed Unimodal Prior Distributions - Minumum, maximum, and most likely Examples - Results with uniform and unimodal prior distributions 6 Effective Sample Size - What's a prior distribution worth? Effective Sample Size