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Wood or Woe (Part 3)

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:09:10 -0400

This is last post for this series of articles on silviculture.

In the last article, I concentrated on trends in silviulture in
Canada. It was discovered that there was a big lag in silviculture in provinces.

This article I will concetrate on finding the reasons for the decline of silviculture in Canada based on the data at hand.

If you look at all the data from the site, you will see it has a similar layout.

Thus I will only analy...

Wood or Woe PArt 2

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:19:23 -0400

This article is very technical. You need statistics to understand it. If statistics gives you a headache, skip to the end of the article

This section tests for trends in economic growth over in silvicuture over 12 years from the all the provinces.

I will use the Cox-Stuart Test for Trend. You can find more info on this book from Applied Nonparametric Statistics by Wayne Daniels Second Editon

Our test hypothesis will be a one sided test:

The hypothesis:

H0: No upward trend exists
vs
H1: U...

Wood or Woe

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:49:38 -0400

Part 1 of several articles to come. The rest will be more statistical.