Modelling diameter distributions of two-cohort forest stands with various proportions of dominant species: a two-component mixture model approach

DOI10.1016/j.mbs.2014.01.007zbMath1309.92071WikidataQ46937141 ScholiaQ46937141MaRDI QIDQ2452901

Rafał Podlaski, Francis A. Roesch

Publication date: 5 June 2014

Published in: Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2014.01.007

zbMATH Keywords

parameter estimation; initial values; kernel density estimator; gamma distribution; Weibull distribution; two-component mixture model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

62G30: Order statistics; empirical distribution functions

92D25: Population dynamics (general)

92D40: Ecology

62E17: Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic)

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Uses Software

• R
• mixdist

Cites Work

• Finite mixtures of MaxEnt distributions
• Remarks on Some Nonparametric Estimates of a Density Function
• The EM Algorithm and Extensions, 2E
• On Estimation of a Probability Density Function and Mode
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