2004 Volume 3 Pages 69-80
Considering the competition among individual trees and some artificial effects on surrounding tree growth environments by pre-commercial, commercial thinning and self-thinning, each tree grows not only following its own growth trend but also with some structural change in growth pattern. In this paper, we propose a statistical method to investigate whether a structural change occurs in the growth of a tree. Using tree diameter growth data without any record on the management treatments, we present how the proposed method can be used. The proposed method is based on statistical testing under the null hypothesis supposing no change against the alternative hypothesis supposing the existence of the change.
