phcfM-package: Modelling anthropogenic deforestation in tropical forests
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phcfM is an R package for modelling anthropogenic deforestation. It was initially developed to obtain REDD baseline scenarios of deforestation for the "programme holistique de conservation des forets a Madagascar" (from which the package is named after). It includes two main functions: (i) demography(), to model the population growth with time using population census data and Gaussian mixed linear regressions and (ii) deforestation(), to model the deforestation process using land-cover change data and Binary logistic regressions with variable time-intervals between land-cover observations. Parameter inference is done in a hierarchical Bayesian framework. Markov chains Monte Carlo (MCMC) are coded in C++ using the Scythe statistical library to maximize computation efficiency.

Package:	phcfM
Type:	Package
Version:	1.1
Date:	2012-06-13
License:	GPL-3
LazyLoad:	yes

Ghislain Vieilledent <ghislain.vieilledent@cirad.fr>

Ghislain Vieilledent, Clovis Grinand and Romuald Vaudry. 2013. Forecasting deforestation and carbon emissions in tropical developing countries facing demographic expansion: a case study in Madagascar. Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.550

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