Small area estimation of forest biomass via a two-stage model for continuous zero-inflated data

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Recommended citation: White, Grayson W., Josh K. Yamamoto, Dinan H. Elsyad, Julian F. Schmitt, Niels H. Korsgaard, Jie Kate Hu, George C. Gaines III, Tracey S. Frescino, and Kelly S. McConville. "Small area estimation of forest biomass via a two-stage model for continuous zero-inflated data." arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.03263 (2024). https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03263

A collaboration during summer 2022 at the Harvard Forestry Data Science Lab under Kelly McConville. The study has been submitted to the Canadian Journal of Forest Research.