The Second Stage of Statistics in Forestry and Forest Products Work

It is suggested that the progress in the application of statistical methods in forestry and forest products work, in any country, can be divided into three stages; the primitive stage, the proliferation stage and the scientific stage. It appears that we have reached the middle of the second stage of development which is characterized by fairly wide appreciation and use of elementary statistical techniques in forest work. Typical instances of the possible misuse of statistics occasioned by mechanical use of the methods are mentioned in the hope that it will lead to correct application of the statistical techniques.