Statistical Methods and Applications in Forestry and Environmental Sciences

GIRISH CHANDRA, PhD, is a scientist at the Division of Forestry Statistics, Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), Dehradun, India. He previously worked at the Tropical Forest Research Institute, Jabalpur, and Central Agricultural University, Sikkim. He has published over 25 research papers in various respected journals and one book. He was awarded the Cochran–Hansen Prize 2017 by the International Association of Survey Statisticians, the Netherlands. He is also a recipient of the ICFRE Outstanding Research Award 2018 and Young Scientist Award in Mathematical Sciences from the Government of Uttarakhand. He has presented his research papers at various international conferences and workshops in India and abroad. He has organised two national conferences and is a member of various scientific institutions, including the International Statistical Institute, International Indian Statistical Association, Computational and Methodological Statistics, and the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics. His research interests include sample surveys, probability theory and numerical methods. RAMAN NAUTIYAL is head of the Division of Forestry Statistics, ICFRE. He previously worked as a scientist at the Institute of Forest Genetic and Tree Breeding, Coimbatore. He has handled projects on forestry statistics funded by International Tropical Timber Organization, Japan, Central Statistical Office, NOVOD Board, and the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India. HUKUM CHANDRA is an ICAR National Fellow at the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi, India. He holds a PhD from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, and completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Wollongong, Australia. His main research areas include sample survey design and analysis, small area estimation, bootstrap methods, statistical modelling anddata analysis, and statistical methodology for the improvement of agricultural statistics. He has received numerous awards and recognition for his research contributions, including the National Award in Statistics from the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India; Cochran–Hansen Award from the International Association of Survey Statisticians; Young Researcher/Student Award from the American Statistical Association; Lal Bahadur Shastri Outstanding Young Scientist Award from ICAR; Recognition Award from the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences; Professor P.V. Sukhatme Gold Medal Award; and Dr. D.N. Lal Memorial Award from the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics. He also received a scholarship from the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom.  A council member of the International Association of Survey Statisticians, Dr Chandra has worked as an expert member of various committees at a number of institutions and ministries in India. As an international consultant for the FAO, he has worked in Sri Lanka, Ethiopia and Myanmar. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India. He has published more than 100 journal papers, three books, and several technical bulletins, project reports, book chapters, working papers, and training and teaching manuals.

Chapter 1. Measurement, Data and Statistics: A Historical Voyage in Indian Forestry.- Chapter 2. National Forest Inventory in India: Developments Towards a New Design to Meet Emerging Challenges.- Chapter 3. Internet of Things in Forestry and Environmental Sciences.- Chapter 4. Inverse Adaptive Stratified Random Sampling.- Chapter 5. Improved Nonparametric Estimation Using Partially Ordered Sets.- Chapter 6. Bayesian Inference of a Finite Population Mean Under Length-Biased Sampling.- Chapter 7. Calibration Approach Based Estimators for Finite Population Mean in Multistage Stratified Random Sampling.- Chapter 8. A Joint Calibration Estimator of Population Total Under Entropy Distance Function Based on Dual Frame Surveys.- Chapter 9. Fusing Classical Theories and Biomechanics Into Forest Modelling.- Chapter 10. Statistical Multivariate Methods for Decision Making in Classification of Water Quality Data and Management of Water Resources.- Chapter 11. Investigating Selection Criteria of Constrained Cluster Analysis: Applications in Forestry.- Chapter 12. Ridge Regression Model for the Estimation of Total Carbon Sequestered by Forest Species.- Chapter 13. Some Investigations on Designs for Mixture Experiments with Process Variable.- Chapter 14. Development in Copula Applications in Forestry and Environmental Sciences.- Chapter 15. Forest Cover Type Prediction Using Model Averaging.- Chapter 16. Small Area Estimation for Skewed Semicontinuous Spatially Structured Responses.- Chapter 17. Small Area Estimation for Total Basal Cover in the State of Maharashtra, India.- Chapter 18. Estimation of Abundance of Asiatic Elephants in Elephant Reserves of Kerala State, India.- Chapter 19. Exploration of Metagenomics Tools for Analysis of Forest Soil Microbial Diversity and its Annotation.- Chapter 20. Integrated Survey Scheme to Capture Forestry Related Data in Bangladesh: Beyond the Traditional Approach.