Abstract:Canada's National Forest Inventory (NFI) is facing an issue of spatial imbalance in photo interpreted data from 400 ha photo-plots available for estimation of state and change. Multiple imputations (MI) of missing data is therefore considered as a means to mitigate a potential bias arising from spatial imbalance, and-to a lesser degree-improve the precision relative to what can be achieved with the subset of plots having current data. In this study we explored MI with data from three study sites located in the… Show more
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