A System to Derive Optimal Tree Diameter Increment Models from the Eastwide Forest Inventory Data Base (EFIDB)
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This ar t ic le i s an in troduct ion to the computevsoffwave used by the Potential Relative Increment (PRI) approach to opt imal tree diameter growth modeling. These DOSpvograms extract quali f ied tree andplot data,from the Eastwide Forest Inventory Data Base (EFIDB), calculate relat ive tree increment , sort for the highest relat ive iucrements by diameter class, and generate an ASCIIjile for post-processing in any so f tware package capable qf customized ordinary least squares regression. South. J . Appl . For. 26(4):214-221.
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