This study compares methods to estimate stem volume, stem number and basal area from Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data for 68 field plots in a hemi-boreal, spruce dominated forest (Lat. 58°N, Long. 13°E). The stem volume was estimated with five different regression models: one model based on height and density metrics from the ALS data derived from the whole field plot, two models based on sim...

In this paper, our main objective is to present the use of Microsoft Software Excel 2007/2003 for teaching college and university level curriculum in science and engineering. In particular, we discuss two interesting and fascinating examples of interactive applications of Microsoft Excel targeted for undergraduate students in (1) computational physics and physics education, and in (2) computer ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Multiple statistical analyses of the 2 NINDS-tPA trials have confirmed study findings of benefit of fibrinolytic therapy. A recent graphic analysis departed from best practices in the visual display of quantitative information by failing to take into account the skewed functional importance of NIH Stroke Scale raw scores and by scaling change axes at up to 20 times the ra...

In n-tuple Zipf analysis, ‘‘words’’ are defined as strings of n digits, and their normalized frequency of occurrence v is measured for a given ‘‘text’’ ~sequence of digits!. In the case of various non-Markovian sequences, the probability density of the frequencies P(v) has a power-law tail. Here we argue that a broad class of unbiased binary texts exhibiting a nonexponential distribution of clu...