Statistical Procedures for Disaggregation Applicable to Modeling Climatic Effects on Forest Growth

摘要

Many processes that are observable for an entire population can be difficult to observe for the individuals in the population. In a conceptually similar problem, a production process may be influenced by factors that vary in a temporal sequence during production, but the yield is observable only at the completion of the process. In the note, statistical procedures for disaggregation, originally developed by R. A. Fisher, are reintroduced with suggestions for how they might be applied to problems of modeling effects of climate and stand structure on forest growth.