BACKGROUND Carbon accounting in forests remains a large area of uncertainty in the global carbon cycle. Forest aboveground biomass is therefore an attribute of great interest for the forest management community, but the accuracy of aboveground biomass maps depends on the accuracy of the underlying field estimates used to calibrate models. These field estimates depend on the application of allom...

R obin Page and Steve Jenkins are the husband wife/author illustrator team behind more than forty books for children, well-known beloved their clever exploration of animal world. Sadly, passed away on December 26, 2021. For lovers children’s literature, he left a legacy creativity, curiosity, kindness that will be felt generations to come. Robin shares Steve’s commitment making difference in li...

The challenge of predicting future values of a time series covers a variety of disciplines. The fundamental problem of selecting the order and identifying the time varying parameters of an autoregressive moving average model (ARMA) concerns many important fields of interest such as linear prediction, system identification and spectral analysis. Recent research activities in forecasting with art...

Laura Dudley Jenkins. 2019. Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. vi + 312 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. $89.95 (hardback).

At the end of every year the Value Line (VL) Corporation publishes its forecasts of the Dow Jones Index and its probable ranges for the coming three years using a three explanatory variable multiple regression model that we call the Value Line Dow Jones (VL-DJ) model. The model is a static time series model. Therefore, forecasts of the Dow Jones Index rely on forecasts of the independent variab...