FIESTA - Model-Assisted Estimators

Model-Assisted (MA) module overview

FIESTA’s Model-Assisted (MA) module calculates population estimates and their sampling errors by taking advantage of available model-assisted survey estimators from the mase R package (McConville, et al. 2018). These estimators can use a variety of auxiliary data to build models and predict over a response variable of interest, while using a bias-correction term so that the bias of the model does not depend on model mis-specification.

Functions in FIESTA used for fitting model-assisted estimators include the modMAarea function for area estimates and modMAtree for tree estimates. The modMApop function is used to get population data needed for model-assisted estimation. Below is a description and table of contents for the sections related to these functions:

FUNCTION DESCRIPTION
modMApop Creates population data for model-assisted estimation.
modMAarea Produces area level estimates through model-assisted estimation.
modMAtree Produces tree level estimates through model-assisted estimation.

Objective of tutorial

The main objective of this tutorial is to demonstrate how to use FIESTA for generating estimates using estimators from mase. The model-assisted estimators can be used with FIA’s standard state-level population data (i.e, Evaluation) from the FIA database (FIADB) and also population data from a custom boundary.

The following examples are for generating estimates and estimated variances using standard FIA Evaluation data from FIA’s National database, with custom Estimation unit and Stratification information. The examples use data from three inventory years of field measurements in the state of Wyoming, from FIADB_1.7.2.00, last updated June 20, 2018, downloaded on June 25, 2018 and stored as internal data objects in FIESTA.

Example data - Wyoming (WY), Inventory Years 2011-2012

View MA Example Data
Data Frame Description
WYplt WY plot-level data
WYcond WY condition-level data
WYtree WY tree-level data
External data Description
WYbighorn_adminbnd.shp Polygon shapefile of WY Bighorn National Forest Administrative boundary*
WYbighorn_districtbnd.shp Polygon shapefile of WY Bighorn National Forest District boundaries**
WYbighorn_forest_nonforest_250m.tif GeoTIFF raster of predicted forest/nonforest (1/0) for stratification***
WYbighorn_dem_250m.img Erdas Imagine raster of elevation change, in meters****

*USDA Forest Service, Automated Lands Program (ALP). 2018. S_USA.AdministrativeForest (http://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw). Description: An area encompassing all the National Forest System lands administered by an administrative unit. The area encompasses private lands, other governmental agency lands, and may contain National Forest System lands within the proclaimed boundaries of another administrative unit. All National Forest System lands fall within one and only one Administrative Forest Area.

**USDA Forest Service, Automated Lands Program (ALP). 2018. S_USA.RangerDistrict (http://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw). Description: A depiction of the boundary that encompasses a Ranger District.

***Based on MODIS-based classified map resampled from 250m to 500m resolution and reclassified from 3 to 2 classes: 1:forest; 2:nonforest. Projected in Albers Conical Equal Area, Datum NAD27 (Ruefenacht et al. 2008). Clipped to extent of WYbighorn_adminbnd.shp.

****USGS National Elevation Dataset (NED), resampled from 30m resolution to 250m. Projected in Albers Conical Equal Area, Datum NAD27 (U.S. Geological Survey 2017). Clipped to boundary of WYbighorn_adminbnd.shp.

Set up

First, you’ll need to load the FIESTA library:

library(FIESTA)

Next, you’ll need to set up an “outfolder”. This is just a file path to a folder where you’d like FIESTA to send your data output. For our purposes in this vignette, we have saved our outfolder file path as the outfolder object in a temporary directory. We also set a few default options preferred for this vignette.

outfolder <- tempdir()

Get data for examples

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Now that we’ve loaded FIESTA and setup our outfolder, we can retrieve the data needed to run the examples. First, we point to some external data and predictor layers stored in FIESTA and derive new predictor layers using the raster package.

# File names for external spatial data
WYbhfn <- system.file("extdata", "sp_data/WYbighorn_adminbnd.shp",
                      package = "FIESTA")
WYbhdistfn <- system.file("extdata", "sp_data/WYbighorn_districtbnd.shp",
                          package = "FIESTA")

## predictor variables
fornffn <- system.file("extdata", "sp_data/WYbighorn_forest_nonforest_250m.tif",
                       package = "FIESTA")
demfn <- system.file("extdata", "sp_data/WYbighorn_dem_250m.img",
                     package = "FIESTA")

# Derive new predictor layers from dem
library(raster)
dem <- raster(demfn)
slp <- terrain(dem,
               opt = "slope",
               unit = "degrees",
               filename = paste0(outfolder, "/WYbh_slp.img"), 
               overwrite = TRUE)
asp <- terrain(dem,
               opt = "aspect",
               unit = "degrees", 
               filename = paste0(outfolder, "/WYbh_asp.img"),
               overwrite = TRUE)

Next, we can get our FIA plot data and set up our auxiliary data. We can get our FIA plot data with the spMakeSpatialPoints function from FIESTA. For more information on how to use this function, please see the sp vignette included with FIESTA (link).

WYspplt <- spMakeSpatialPoints(
  xyplt = WYplt,
  xy.uniqueid = "CN",
  xvar = "LON_PUBLIC",
  yvar = "LAT_PUBLIC",
  prj = "longlat",
  datum = "NAD83"
)

rastlst.cont <- c(demfn, slp, asp)
rastlst.cont.name <- c("dem", "slp", "asp")
rastlst.cat <- fornffn
rastlst.cat.name="fornf"

Next, we must generate dataset for model-assisted estimation. We can do this with the spGetAuxiliary function from FIESTA. Again, see the sp vignette for further information on this function.

modeldat <- spGetAuxiliary(
  xyplt = WYspplt,
  uniqueid = "CN",
  unit_layer = WYbhfn,
  unitvar = NULL,
  rastlst.cont = rastlst.cont,
  rastlst.cont.name = rastlst.cont.name,
  rastlst.cat = rastlst.cat,
  rastlst.cat.name = rastlst.cat.name,
  rastlst.cont.stat = "mean",
  asptransform = TRUE,
  rast.asp = asp,
  keepNA = FALSE,
  showext = FALSE,
  savedata = FALSE)
str(modeldat, max.level = 1)
output 
## List of 12
##  $ unitvar       : chr "ONEUNIT"
##  $ pltassgn      :'data.frame':  56 obs. of  25 variables:
##  $ pltassgnid    : chr "CN"
##  $ unitarea      :'data.frame':  1 obs. of  2 variables:
##  $ areavar       : chr "ACRES_GIS"
##  $ unitzonal     :'data.frame':  1 obs. of  8 variables:
##  $ inputdf       :Classes 'data.table' and 'data.frame': 5 obs. of  7 variables:
##   ..- attr(*, ".internal.selfref")=<externalptr> 
##  $ prednames     : chr [1:5] "dem" "slp" "asp_cos" "asp_sin" ...
##  $ zonalnames    : chr [1:7] "dem" "slp" "asp_cos" "asp_sin" ...
##  $ predfac       : chr "fornf"
##  $ npixelvar     : chr "npixels"
##  $ predfac.levels:List of 1

Examples

modMApop

Example 1: Creating our population dataset with modMApop

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We can create our population data for model-assisted estimation. To do so, we use the modMApop function in FIESTA. We must assign our population tables with the popTabs argument (and unique identifiers for these tables with the popTabIDs argument if they are not the default), the plot assignment with the pltassgn argument, and in auxiliary dataset we just created with the auxdat argument. The spGetAuxiliary function has done much of the hard work for us so far, so we can just run a simple call to modMApop:

MApopdat <- modMApop(popTabs = list(tree = WYtree, cond = WYcond),
                     pltassgn = WYpltassgn,
                     auxdat = modeldat)

Note that the modMApop function returns a list with lots of information and data for us to use. For a quick look at what this list includes we can use the str function:

str(MApopdat, max.level = 1)
output 
## List of 25
##  $ popType    : chr "VOL"
##  $ condx      :Classes 'data.table' and 'data.frame':    66 obs. of  17 variables:
##   ..- attr(*, "sorted")= chr [1:2] "PLT_CN" "CONDID"
##   ..- attr(*, ".internal.selfref")=<externalptr> 
##  $ pltcondx   :Classes 'data.table' and 'data.frame':    66 obs. of  29 variables:
##   ..- attr(*, ".internal.selfref")=<externalptr> 
##   ..- attr(*, "sorted")= chr [1:2] "PLT_CN" "CONDID"
##  $ cuniqueid  : chr "PLT_CN"
##  $ condid     : chr "CONDID"
##  $ ACI.filter : chr "COND_STATUS_CD == 1"
##  $ unitarea   :Classes 'data.table' and 'data.frame':    1 obs. of  2 variables:
##   ..- attr(*, ".internal.selfref")=<externalptr> 
##   ..- attr(*, "sorted")= chr "ONEUNIT"
##  $ areavar    : chr "ACRES_GIS"
##  $ areaunits  : chr "acres"
##  $ unitvar    : chr "ONEUNIT"
##  $ unitvars   : chr "ONEUNIT"
##  $ unitlut    :Classes 'data.table' and 'data.frame':    1 obs. of  7 variables:
##   ..- attr(*, ".internal.selfref")=<externalptr> 
##   ..- attr(*, "sorted")= chr "ONEUNIT"
##  $ plotsampcnt:'data.frame': 2 obs. of  3 variables:
##  $ condsampcnt:'data.frame': 4 obs. of  3 variables:
##  $ npixels    :Classes 'data.table' and 'data.frame':    1 obs. of  2 variables:
##   ..- attr(*, ".internal.selfref")=<externalptr> 
##  $ npixelvar  : chr "npixels"
##  $ states     : chr "Wyoming"
##  $ invyrs     :List of 1
##  $ estvar.area: chr "CONDPROP_ADJ"
##  $ adj        : chr "plot"
##  $ treex      :Classes 'data.table' and 'data.frame':    1691 obs. of  21 variables:
##   ..- attr(*, ".internal.selfref")=<externalptr> 
##   ..- attr(*, "sorted")= chr "PLT_CN"
##  $ tuniqueid  : chr "PLT_CN"
##  $ adjtree    : logi FALSE
##  $ prednames  : chr [1:5] "dem" "slp" "asp_cos" "asp_sin" ...
##  $ predfac    : chr "fornf"

Now that we’ve created our population dataset, we can move on to estimation.

modMAarea

Example 2: Area of forest land, Wyoming, 2011-2013

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In this example, we look at estimating the area of forest land in Wyoming from 2011 to 2013 summed to the population unit (sumunit = TRUE) with the generalized regression estimator (MAmethod = "greg"). FIESTA returns raw data for area of forest land, Wyoming, 2011-2013 (sum estimation units).

area1 <- modMAarea(
  MApopdat = MApopdat, # pop - population calculations for WY, post-stratification
  MAmethod = "greg", # est - model-assisted method
  landarea = "FOREST", # est - forest land filter
  )

We can look at the structure of this output with str and the estimates below. Note that again FIESTA outputs a list.

str(area1, max.level = 2)
output 
## List of 4
##  $ est    :Classes 'data.table' and 'data.frame':    1 obs. of  3 variables:
##   ..$ ONEUNIT               : num 1
##   ..$ Estimate              : num 660395
##   ..$ Percent Sampling Error: num 9.42
##   ..- attr(*, ".internal.selfref")=<externalptr> 
##   ..- attr(*, "sorted")= chr "ONEUNIT"
##  $ raw    :List of 9
##   ..$ unit_totest  :'data.frame':    1 obs. of  18 variables:
##   ..$ domdat       :'data.frame':    66 obs. of  19 variables:
##   ..$ module       : chr "MA"
##   ..$ esttype      : chr "AREA"
##   ..$ MAmethod     : chr "greg"
##   ..$ predselectlst:List of 1
##   ..$ rowvar       : chr "TOTAL"
##   ..$ colvar       : chr "NONE"
##   ..$ areaunits    : chr "acres"
##  $ statecd: int 56
##  $ invyr  : int [1:3] 2011 2012 2013
area1$est
output 
##    ONEUNIT Estimate Percent Sampling Error
## 1:       1 660395.1                   9.42

Example 3: Area of forest land, Wyoming, 2011-2013, using the Elastic Net for variable selection

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Here, we fit the same model as the above example, but rather than using "greg" are our model-assisted method, we can use "gregEN" where the EN stands for “elastic net”. The elastic net performs variable selection for us, grabbing predictors it finds to be most useful in the model.

area2 <- modMAarea(
  MApopdat = MApopdat, # pop - population calculations for WY, post-stratification
  MAmethod = "gregEN", # est - model-assisted method
  landarea = "FOREST", # est - forest land filter
  )

We can again see that the structure of the list is very similar to that in the above example:

str(area2, max.level = 2)
output 
## List of 4
##  $ est    :Classes 'data.table' and 'data.frame':    1 obs. of  3 variables:
##   ..$ ONEUNIT               : num 1
##   ..$ Estimate              : num 669355
##   ..$ Percent Sampling Error: num 9.38
##   ..- attr(*, ".internal.selfref")=<externalptr> 
##   ..- attr(*, "sorted")= chr "ONEUNIT"
##  $ raw    :List of 9
##   ..$ unit_totest  :'data.frame':    1 obs. of  18 variables:
##   ..$ domdat       :'data.frame':    66 obs. of  19 variables:
##   ..$ module       : chr "MA"
##   ..$ esttype      : chr "AREA"
##   ..$ MAmethod     : chr "gregEN"
##   ..$ predselectlst:List of 1
##   ..$ rowvar       : chr "TOTAL"
##   ..$ colvar       : chr "NONE"
##   ..$ areaunits    : chr "acres"
##  $ statecd: int 56
##  $ invyr  : int [1:3] 2011 2012 2013

However now the raw list has an item call predselectlst. We can look at this item now:

area2$raw$predselectlst$totest
output 
##    ONEUNIT TOTAL         dem         slp asp_cos asp_sin     fornf2
## 1:       1     1 -0.00016373 0.008837164       0       0 -0.3142182

Notably, we can see that dem, slp, asp_cos, and asp_sin were removed from the model.

Example 4: Area by forest type on forest land, Wyoming, 2011-2013

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In this example, we look at adding rows to the output and include returntitle=TRUE to return title information.

area3 <- modMAarea(
    MApopdat = MApopdat,         # pop - population calculations for WY, post-stratification
    MAmethod = "greg",           # est - model-assisted method
    landarea = "FOREST",         # est - forest land filter
    rowvar = "FORTYPCD",         # est - row domain
    returntitle = TRUE           # out - return title information
    )

Again, we can look at the contents of the output list. The output now includes titlelst, a list of associated titles.

str(area3, max.level = 1)
output 
## List of 5
##  $ est     :'data.frame':    8 obs. of  3 variables:
##  $ titlelst:List of 9
##  $ raw     :List of 10
##  $ statecd : int 56
##  $ invyr   : int [1:3] 2011 2012 2013

And the estimates:

## Estimate and percent sampling error of estimate
area3$est
output 
##   Forest type Estimate Percent Sampling Error
## 1         201  42653.6                  60.56
## 2         265  47917.2                  67.78
## 3         266  71039.9                  43.05
## 4         268  39520.3                   68.8
## 5         281 407596.6                  16.05
## 6         901  24905.9                  78.03
## 7         999  26761.6                  63.54
## 8       Total 660395.1                   9.42

Along with raw data and titles:

## Raw data (list object) for estimate
raw3 <- area3$raw      # extract raw data list object from output
names(raw3)
output 
##  [1] "unit_totest"   "unit_rowest"   "domdat"        "module"       
##  [5] "esttype"       "MAmethod"      "predselectlst" "rowvar"       
##  [9] "colvar"        "areaunits"
head(raw3$unit_totest) # estimates by estimation unit (i.e., ESTN_UNIT)
output 
##   ONEUNIT      nhat    nhat.var NBRPLT NBRPLT.gt0 ACRES_GIS AREAUSED      est
## 1       1 0.5936603 0.003129767     56         37   1112412  1112412 660395.1
##      est.var   est.se     est.cv      pse CI99left CI99right CI95left CI95right
## 1 3872964796 62233.15 0.09423624 9.423624 500093.1    820697 538420.4  782369.8
##   CI68left CI68right
## 1 598506.8  722283.3
raw3$totest            # estimates for population (i.e., WY)
output 
## NULL
head(raw3$unit_rowest) # estimates by row, by estimation unit (i.e., ESTN_UNIT)
output 
##   ONEUNIT Forest type       nhat     nhat.var NBRPLT NBRPLT.gt0 ACRES_GIS
## 1       1         201 0.03834336 0.0005392280     56          2   1112412
## 2       1         265 0.04307505 0.0008523855     56          4   1112412
## 3       1         266 0.06386110 0.0007557639     56          5   1112412
## 4       1         268 0.03552668 0.0005973938     56          3   1112412
## 5       1         281 0.36640782 0.0034566717     56         23   1112412
## 6       1         901 0.02238906 0.0003052203     56          1   1112412
##   AREAUSED       est    est.var   est.se    est.cv      pse CI99left CI99right
## 1  1112412  42653.63  667273775 25831.64 0.6056142 60.56142      0.0 109191.53
## 2  1112412  47917.21 1054793996 32477.59 0.6777855 67.77855      0.0 131573.95
## 3  1112412  71039.88  935228490 30581.51 0.4304836 43.04836      0.0 149812.62
## 4  1112412  39520.32  739251639 27189.18 0.6879799 68.79799      0.0 109555.01
## 5  1112412 407596.59 4277497216 65402.58 0.1604591 16.04591 239130.7 576062.46
## 6  1112412  24905.87  377698351 19434.46 0.7803167 78.03167      0.0  74965.72
##    CI95left CI95right   CI68left CI68right
## 1      0.00  93282.72  16965.145  68342.11
## 2      0.00 111572.13  15619.617  80214.81
## 3  11101.23 130978.53  40627.860 101451.90
## 4      0.00  92810.14  12481.820  66558.81
## 5 279409.89 535783.28 342556.478 472636.70
## 6      0.00  62996.71   5579.111  44232.62
head(raw3$rowest)      # estimates by row for population (i.e., WY)
output 
## NULL
## Titles (list object) for estimate
titlelst3 <- area3$titlelst
names(titlelst3)
output 
## [1] "title.estpse"  "title.unitvar" "title.ref"     "outfn.estpse" 
## [5] "outfn.rawdat"  "outfn.param"   "title.rowvar"  "title.row"    
## [9] "title.unitsn"
titlelst3
output 
## $title.estpse
## [1] "Area, in acres, and percent sampling error on forest land by forest type"
## 
## $title.unitvar
## [1] "ONEUNIT"
## 
## $title.ref
## [1] ", 2011-2013"
## 
## $outfn.estpse
## [1] "area_FORTYPCD_forestland"
## 
## $outfn.rawdat
## [1] "area_FORTYPCD_forestland_rawdata"
## 
## $outfn.param
## [1] "area_FORTYPCD_forestland_parameters"
## 
## $title.rowvar
## [1] "Forest type"
## 
## $title.row
## [1] "Area, in acres, on forest land by forest type; , 2011-2013"
## 
## $title.unitsn
## [1] "acres"

Example 5: Area by forest type and stand-size class on forest land, Wyoming, 2011-2013

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In this example, we look at adding rows and columns to output, including FIA names. We also output estimates and percent standard error in the same cell with the allin1 argument in table_options and save data to an outfolder with the outfolder argument in savedata_options.

## Area of forest land by forest type and stand-size class, Wyoming, 2011-2013
area4 <- modMAarea(
    MApopdat = MApopdat,         # pop - population calculations for WY, post-stratification
    MAmethod = "greg",           # est - model-assisted method
    landarea = "FOREST",         # est - forest land filter
    rowvar = "FORTYPCD",         # est - row domain
    colvar = "STDSZCD",          # est - column domain
    savedata = TRUE,             # out - save data to outfolder
    returntitle = TRUE,          # out - return title information
    table_opts = list(
      row.FIAname = TRUE,          # table - row domain names
      col.FIAname = TRUE,          # table - column domain names
      allin1 = TRUE                # table - return output with est(pse)
      ),
    savedata_opts = list(
      outfolder = outfolder,       # save - outfolder for saving data
      outfn.pre = "WY"             # save - prefix for output files
      )
    )

area4$est
output 
##                         Forest type     Large diameter    Medium diameter
## 1:                      Douglas-fir  23,330.7 ( 79.00)        -- (    --)
## 2:                 Engelmann spruce  36,892.1 ( 74.16)  11,025.2 (175.15)
## 3: Engelmann spruce / subalpine fir  40,287.9 ( 68.99)  14,443.2 ( 66.30)
## 4:                    Subalpine fir  26,255.3 ( 75.29)        -- (    --)
## 5:                   Lodgepole pine 140,798.2 ( 33.20) 230,288.3 ( 20.42)
## 6:                            Aspen        -- (    --)        -- (    --)
## 7:                       Nonstocked        -- (    --)        -- (    --)
## 8:                            Total 267,564.1 ( 21.17) 255,756.7 ( 19.38)
##        Small diameter        Nonstocked              Total
## 1:  19,322.9 ( 99.12)       -- (    --)  42,653.6 ( 60.56)
## 2:        -- (    --)       -- (    --)  47,917.2 ( 67.78)
## 3:  16,308.7 ( 71.46)       -- (    --)  71,039.9 ( 43.05)
## 4:  13,265.0 (141.72)       -- (    --)  39,520.3 ( 68.80)
## 5:  36,510.1 ( 74.46)       -- (    --) 407,596.6 ( 16.05)
## 6:  24,905.9 ( 78.03)       -- (    --)  24,905.9 ( 78.03)
## 7:        -- (    --) 26,761.6 ( 63.54)  26,761.6 ( 63.54)
## 8: 110,312.6 ( 37.41) 26,761.6 ( 63.54) 660,395.1 (  9.42)

We can again look at the output list, estimates, raw data, and titles:

## Look at output list
names(area4)
output 
## [1] "est"      "pse"      "titlelst" "raw"      "statecd"  "invyr"
## Estimate and percent sampling error of estimate
head(area4$est)
output 
##                         Forest type     Large diameter    Medium diameter
## 1:                      Douglas-fir  23,330.7 ( 79.00)        -- (    --)
## 2:                 Engelmann spruce  36,892.1 ( 74.16)  11,025.2 (175.15)
## 3: Engelmann spruce / subalpine fir  40,287.9 ( 68.99)  14,443.2 ( 66.30)
## 4:                    Subalpine fir  26,255.3 ( 75.29)        -- (    --)
## 5:                   Lodgepole pine 140,798.2 ( 33.20) 230,288.3 ( 20.42)
## 6:                            Aspen        -- (    --)        -- (    --)
##       Small diameter  Nonstocked              Total
## 1: 19,322.9 ( 99.12) -- (    --)  42,653.6 ( 60.56)
## 2:       -- (    --) -- (    --)  47,917.2 ( 67.78)
## 3: 16,308.7 ( 71.46) -- (    --)  71,039.9 ( 43.05)
## 4: 13,265.0 (141.72) -- (    --)  39,520.3 ( 68.80)
## 5: 36,510.1 ( 74.46) -- (    --) 407,596.6 ( 16.05)
## 6: 24,905.9 ( 78.03) -- (    --)  24,905.9 ( 78.03)
## Raw data (list object) for estimate
raw4 <- area4$raw      # extract raw data list object from output
names(raw4)
output 
##  [1] "unit_totest"   "unit_rowest"   "unit_colest"   "unit_grpest"  
##  [5] "domdat"        "module"        "esttype"       "MAmethod"     
##  [9] "predselectlst" "rowvar"        "colvar"        "areaunits"
head(raw4$unit_totest) # estimates by estimation unit (i.e., ESTN_UNIT)
output 
##   ONEUNIT      nhat    nhat.var NBRPLT NBRPLT.gt0 ACRES_GIS AREAUSED      est
## 1       1 0.5936603 0.003129767     56         37   1112412  1112412 660395.1
##      est.var   est.se     est.cv      pse CI99left CI99right CI95left CI95right
## 1 3872964796 62233.15 0.09423624 9.423624 500093.1    820697 538420.4  782369.8
##   CI68left CI68right
## 1 598506.8  722283.3
head(raw4$totest)      # estimates for population (i.e., WY)
output 
## NULL
head(raw4$unit_rowest) # estimates by row, by estimation unit (i.e., ESTN_UNIT)
output 
##   ONEUNIT                      Forest type       nhat     nhat.var NBRPLT
## 1       1                      Douglas-fir 0.03834336 0.0005392280     56
## 2       1                 Engelmann spruce 0.04307505 0.0008523855     56
## 3       1 Engelmann spruce / subalpine fir 0.06386110 0.0007557639     56
## 4       1                    Subalpine fir 0.03552668 0.0005973938     56
## 5       1                   Lodgepole pine 0.36640782 0.0034566717     56
## 6       1                            Aspen 0.02238906 0.0003052203     56
##   NBRPLT.gt0 FORTYPCD ACRES_GIS AREAUSED       est    est.var   est.se
## 1          2      201   1112412  1112412  42653.63  667273775 25831.64
## 2          4      265   1112412  1112412  47917.21 1054793996 32477.59
## 3          5      266   1112412  1112412  71039.88  935228490 30581.51
## 4          3      268   1112412  1112412  39520.32  739251639 27189.18
## 5         23      281   1112412  1112412 407596.59 4277497216 65402.58
## 6          1      901   1112412  1112412  24905.87  377698351 19434.46
##      est.cv      pse CI99left CI99right  CI95left CI95right   CI68left
## 1 0.6056142 60.56142      0.0 109191.53      0.00  93282.72  16965.145
## 2 0.6777855 67.77855      0.0 131573.95      0.00 111572.13  15619.617
## 3 0.4304836 43.04836      0.0 149812.62  11101.23 130978.53  40627.860
## 4 0.6879799 68.79799      0.0 109555.01      0.00  92810.14  12481.820
## 5 0.1604591 16.04591 239130.7 576062.46 279409.89 535783.28 342556.478
## 6 0.7803167 78.03167      0.0  74965.72      0.00  62996.71   5579.111
##   CI68right
## 1  68342.11
## 2  80214.81
## 3 101451.90
## 4  66558.81
## 5 472636.70
## 6  44232.62
head(raw4$rowest)      # estimates by row for population (i.e., WY)
output 
## NULL
head(raw4$unit_colest) # estimates by column, by estimation unit (i.e., ESTN_UNIT)
output 
##   ONEUNIT Stand-size class       nhat     nhat.var NBRPLT NBRPLT.gt0 STDSZCD
## 1       1   Large diameter 0.24052605 0.0025935705     56         18       1
## 2       1  Medium diameter 0.22991178 0.0019845421     56         14       2
## 3       1   Small diameter 0.09916524 0.0013761149     56          6       3
## 4       1       Nonstocked 0.02405726 0.0002336838     56          1       5
##   ACRES_GIS AREAUSED       est    est.var   est.se    est.cv      pse  CI99left
## 1   1112412  1112412 267564.15 3209443017 56651.95 0.2117322 21.17322 121638.40
## 2   1112412  1112412 255756.70 2455793975 49555.97 0.1937621 19.37621 128108.99
## 3   1112412  1112412 110312.64 1702888801 41266.07 0.3740829 37.40829   4018.28
## 4   1112412  1112412  26761.59  289174599 17005.13 0.6354306 63.54306      0.00
##   CI99right  CI95left CI95right   CI68left CI68right
## 1 413489.89 156528.37 378599.92 211226.172 323902.12
## 2 383404.42 158628.79 352884.62 206475.381 305038.03
## 3 216607.00  29432.62 191192.66  69275.269 151350.01
## 4  70563.91      0.00  60091.04   9850.701  43672.48
head(raw4$colest)      # estimates by column for population (i.e., WY)
output 
## NULL
head(raw4$unit_grpest) # estimates by row and column, by estimation unit (i.e., ESTN_UNIT)
output 
##   ONEUNIT                                           grpvar        nhat
## 1       1                       Douglas-fir#Large diameter 0.020973074
## 2       1                       Douglas-fir#Small diameter 0.017370285
## 3       1                  Engelmann spruce#Large diameter 0.033164010
## 4       1                 Engelmann spruce#Medium diameter 0.009911038
## 5       1  Engelmann spruce / subalpine fir#Large diameter 0.036216716
## 6       1 Engelmann spruce / subalpine fir#Medium diameter 0.012983698
##       nhat.var NBRPLT NBRPLT.gt0                      Forest type
## 1 2.745298e-04     56          1                      Douglas-fir
## 2 2.964436e-04     56          1                      Douglas-fir
## 3 6.048455e-04     56          3                 Engelmann spruce
## 4 3.013453e-04     56          1                 Engelmann spruce
## 5 6.243626e-04     56          3 Engelmann spruce / subalpine fir
## 6 7.410764e-05     56          1 Engelmann spruce / subalpine fir
##   Stand-size class STDSZCD FORTYPCD ACRES_GIS AREAUSED      est   est.var
## 1   Large diameter       1      201   1112412  1112412 23330.71 339719955
## 2   Small diameter       3      201   1112412  1112412 19322.92 366837446
## 3   Large diameter       1      265   1112412  1112412 36892.05 748472910
## 4  Medium diameter       2      265   1112412  1112412 11025.16 372903083
## 5   Large diameter       1      266   1112412  1112412 40287.92 772624533
## 6  Medium diameter       2      266   1112412  1112412 14443.23  91705337
##     est.se    est.cv       pse CI99left CI99right CI95left CI95right   CI68left
## 1 18431.49 0.7900101  79.00101        0  70807.09        0  59455.77  5001.3621
## 2 19153.00 0.9912064  99.12064        0  68657.78        0  56862.11   276.0668
## 3 27358.23 0.7415752  74.15752        0 107362.19        0  90513.21  9685.4439
## 4 19310.70 1.7515118 175.15118        0  60766.22        0  48873.43     0.0000
## 5 27796.12 0.6899369  68.99369        0 111885.99        0  94767.33 12645.8475
## 6  9576.29 0.6630299  66.30299        0  39110.12        0  33212.41  4920.0086
##   CI68right
## 1  41660.05
## 2  38369.77
## 3  64098.66
## 4  30228.84
## 5  67930.00
## 6  23966.44
head(raw4$grpest)      # estimates by row and column for population (i.e., WY)
output 
## NULL
## Titles (list object) for estimate
titlelst4 <- area4$titlelst
names(titlelst4)
output 
##  [1] "title.estpse"  "title.unitvar" "title.ref"     "outfn.estpse" 
##  [5] "outfn.rawdat"  "outfn.param"   "title.rowvar"  "title.row"    
##  [9] "title.colvar"  "title.col"     "title.unitsn"
titlelst4
output 
## $title.estpse
## [1] "Area, in acres (percent sampling error), by forest type and stand-size class on forest land"
## 
## $title.unitvar
## [1] "ONEUNIT"
## 
## $title.ref
## [1] ", 2011-2013"
## 
## $outfn.estpse
## [1] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland"
## 
## $outfn.rawdat
## [1] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata"
## 
## $outfn.param
## [1] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_parameters"
## 
## $title.rowvar
## [1] "Forest type"
## 
## $title.row
## [1] "Area, in acres (percent sampling error), by forest type on forest land; , 2011-2013"
## 
## $title.colvar
## [1] "Stand-size class"
## 
## $title.col
## [1] "Area, in acres (percent sampling error), by stand-size class on forest land; , 2011-2013"
## 
## $title.unitsn
## [1] "acres"
## List output files in outfolder
list.files(outfolder, pattern = "WY_area")
output 
## [1] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland.csv"                
## [2] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_modMA_mase_greg.csv"
list.files(paste0(outfolder, "/rawdata"), pattern = "WY_area")
output 
##  [1] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_colest.csv"                     
##  [2] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_domdat.csv"                     
##  [3] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_grpest.csv"                     
##  [4] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_modMA_mase_greg_domdat.csv"     
##  [5] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_modMA_mase_greg_unit_colest.csv"
##  [6] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_modMA_mase_greg_unit_grpest.csv"
##  [7] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_modMA_mase_greg_unit_rowest.csv"
##  [8] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_modMA_mase_greg_unit_totest.csv"
##  [9] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_rowest.csv"                     
## [10] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_totest.csv"                     
## [11] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_unit_colest.csv"                
## [12] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_unit_grpest.csv"                
## [13] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_unit_rowest.csv"                
## [14] "WY_area_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_unit_totest.csv"

modMAtree

We will set our estimate variable and filter now. We set estvar to "VOLCFNET" for net cubic foot volume, and filter with estvar.filter set to "STATUSCD == 1" so we only consider live trees in our estimation.

estvar <- "VOLCFNET"
live_trees <- "STATUSCD == 1"

Example 6: Net cubic-foot volume of live trees, Wyoming, 2011-2013

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We now will generate estimates by estimation unit (i.e., ESTN_UNIT) and sum to population (i.e., WY) with modMAtree.

## Return raw data and titles
## Total net cubic-foot volume of live trees (at least 5 inches diameter), Wyoming, 2011-2013 
tree1 <- modMAtree(
    MApopdat = MApopdat,         # pop - population calculations
    MAmethod = "greg",           # est - model-assisted method
    landarea = "FOREST",         # est - forest land filter
    estvar = estvar,             # est - net cubic-foot volume
    estvar.filter = live_trees,  # est - live trees only
    returntitle = TRUE           # out - return title information
    )

names(tree1)
output 
## [1] "est"      "titlelst" "raw"      "statecd"  "invyr"
tree1$raw$unit_totest
output 
##   ONEUNIT     nhat nhat.var NBRPLT NBRPLT.gt0 ACRES_GIS AREAUSED        est
## 1       1 1165.825  30923.7     56         34   1112412  1112412 1296877648
##        est.var    est.se    est.cv      pse  CI99left  CI99right  CI95left
## 1 3.826688e+16 195619213 0.1508386 15.08386 792995947 1800759350 913471036
##    CI95right   CI68left  CI68right
## 1 1680284261 1102342580 1491412717

Example 7: Net cubic-foot volume of live trees, Wyoming, 2011-2013, using the Elastic Net for variable selection

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Here, we fit the same model as the above example, but rather than using "greg" are our model-assisted method, we can use "gregEN" where the EN stands for “elastic net”. The elastic net performs variable selection for us, grabbing predictors it finds to be most useful in the model.

## Return raw data and titles
## Total net cubic-foot volume of live trees (at least 5 inches diameter), Wyoming, 2011-2013 
tree2 <- modMAtree(
    MApopdat = MApopdat,         # pop - population calculations
    MAmethod = "gregEN",         # est - model-assisted method
    landarea = "FOREST",         # est - forest land filter
    estvar = estvar,             # est - net cubic-foot volume
    estvar.filter = live_trees,  # est - live trees only
    returntitle = TRUE           # out - return title information
    )

We can again see that the structure of the list is very similar to that in the above example:

str(tree2, max.level = 2)
output 
## List of 5
##  $ est     :Classes 'data.table' and 'data.frame':   1 obs. of  3 variables:
##   ..$ ONEUNIT               : num 1
##   ..$ Estimate              : num 1.32e+09
##   ..$ Percent Sampling Error: num 14.9
##   ..- attr(*, ".internal.selfref")=<externalptr> 
##   ..- attr(*, "sorted")= chr "ONEUNIT"
##  $ titlelst:List of 10
##   ..$ title.estpse : chr "Net volume of live trees (at least 5 in dia), in cubic feet, and percent sampling error on forest land live"
##   ..$ title.yvar   : chr "Net volume, in cubic feet"
##   ..$ title.estvar : chr "Net volume of live trees (at least 5 in dia)"
##   ..$ title.unitvar: chr "ONEUNIT"
##   ..$ title.ref    : chr "Wyoming, 2011-2013"
##   ..$ outfn.estpse : chr "tree_VOLCFNET_live_forestland"
##   ..$ outfn.rawdat : chr "tree_VOLCFNET_live_forestland_rawdata"
##   ..$ outfn.param  : chr "tree_VOLCFNET_live_forestland_parameters"
##   ..$ title.tot    : chr "Net volume of live trees (at least 5 in dia), in cubic feet, on forest land live; Wyoming, 2011-2013"
##   ..$ title.unitsn : chr "cubic feet"
##  $ raw     :List of 13
##   ..$ unit_totest  :'data.frame':    1 obs. of  18 variables:
##   ..$ domdat       :'data.frame':    66 obs. of  19 variables:
##   ..$ plotweights  :List of 1
##   ..$ estvar       : chr "VOLCFNET"
##   ..$ estvar.filter: chr "STATUSCD == 1"
##   ..$ module       : chr "MA"
##   ..$ esttype      : chr "TREE"
##   ..$ MAmethod     : chr "gregEN"
##   ..$ predselectlst:List of 1
##   ..$ rowvar       : chr "TOTAL"
##   ..$ colvar       : chr "NONE"
##   ..$ areaunits    : chr "acres"
##   ..$ estunits     : num 1
##  $ statecd : int 56
##  $ invyr   : int [1:3] 2011 2012 2013

However now the raw list has an item call predselectlst. We can look at this item now:

tree2$raw$predselectlst
output 
## $totest
##    ONEUNIT TOTAL       dem       slp  asp_cos   asp_sin   fornf2
## 1:       1     1 0.6266827 -62.43924 23.26726 -515.8696 -1329.81

Notably, we can see that [INSERT CORRECT PREDS] dem, slp, asp_cos, and asp_sin were removed from the model.

Example 8: Net cubic-foot volume of live trees by forest type, Wyoming, 2011-2013

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This example adds rows to the output for net cubic-foot volume of live trees (at least 5 inches diameter) by forest type, Wyoming, 2011-2013. We also choose to return titles with returntitle = TRUE.

tree3 <- modMAtree(
    MApopdat = MApopdat,         # pop - population calculations
    MAmethod = "greg",           # est - model-assisted method
    landarea = "FOREST",         # est - forest land filter
    estvar = "VOLCFNET",               # est - net cubic-foot volume
    estvar.filter = "STATUSCD == 1",   # est - live trees only
    rowvar = "FORTYPCD",         # est - row domain 
    returntitle = TRUE           # out - return title information
    )

Again, we investigate the output of the returned list:

## Look at output list
names(tree3)
output 
## [1] "est"      "titlelst" "raw"      "statecd"  "invyr"
## Estimate and percent sampling error of estimate
tree3$est
output 
##   Forest type     Estimate Percent Sampling Error
## 1         201   15329084.7                  63.95
## 2         265  191806950.6                  70.43
## 3         266  135152582.5                  66.37
## 4         268   49388166.9                  73.19
## 5         281  905200863.5                  19.75
## 6         901           --                     --
## 7         999           --                     --
## 8       Total 1296877648.2                  15.08
## Raw data (list object) for estimate
raw3 <- tree3$raw      # extract raw data list object from output
names(raw3)
output 
##  [1] "unit_totest"   "unit_rowest"   "domdat"        "plotweights"  
##  [5] "estvar"        "estvar.filter" "module"        "esttype"      
##  [9] "MAmethod"      "predselectlst" "rowvar"        "colvar"       
## [13] "areaunits"     "estunits"
head(raw3$unit_totest)   # estimates by estimation unit (i.e., ESTN_UNIT)
output 
##   ONEUNIT     nhat nhat.var NBRPLT NBRPLT.gt0 ACRES_GIS AREAUSED        est
## 1       1 1165.825  30923.7     56         34   1112412  1112412 1296877648
##        est.var    est.se    est.cv      pse  CI99left  CI99right  CI95left
## 1 3.826688e+16 195619213 0.1508386 15.08386 792995947 1800759350 913471036
##    CI95right   CI68left  CI68right
## 1 1680284261 1102342580 1491412717
head(raw3$totest)        # estimates for population (i.e., WY)
output 
## NULL
head(raw3$unit_rowest)   # estimates by row, by estimation unit (i.e., ESTN_UNIT)
output 
##   ONEUNIT Forest type      nhat    nhat.var NBRPLT NBRPLT.gt0 ACRES_GIS
## 1       1         201  13.78004    77.64629     56          2   1112412
## 2       1         265 172.42433 14746.63678     56          4   1112412
## 3       1         266 121.49504  6501.78676     56          5   1112412
## 4       1         268  44.39736  1055.90466     56          2   1112412
## 5       1         281 813.72781 25826.51205     56         23   1112412
## 6       1         901   0.00000     0.00000     56          0   1112412
##   AREAUSED       est      est.var    est.se    est.cv      pse  CI99left
## 1  1112412  15329085 9.608428e+13   9802259 0.6394549 63.94549         0
## 2  1112412 191806951 1.824839e+16 135086607 0.7042842 70.42842         0
## 3  1112412 135152582 8.045709e+15  89697877 0.6636786 66.36786         0
## 4  1112412  49388167 1.306641e+15  36147491 0.7319059 73.19059         0
## 5  1112412 905200864 3.195931e+16 178771664 0.1974939 19.74939 444715574
## 6  1112412         0 0.000000e+00         0       NaN      NaN         0
##    CI99right  CI95left  CI95right  CI68left  CI68right
## 1   40578030         0   34541159   5581151   25077018
## 2  539766992         0  456571836  57469009  326144892
## 3  366199002         0  310957191  45951822  224353343
## 4  142497933         0  120235947  13441010   85335324
## 5 1365686153 554814841 1255586886 727419973 1082981754
## 6          0         0          0         0          0
head(raw3$rowest)        # estimates by row for population (i.e., WY)
output 
## NULL
## Titles (list object) for estimate
titlelst3 <- tree3$titlelst
names(titlelst3)
output 
##  [1] "title.estpse"  "title.yvar"    "title.estvar"  "title.unitvar"
##  [5] "title.ref"     "outfn.estpse"  "outfn.rawdat"  "outfn.param"  
##  [9] "title.rowvar"  "title.row"     "title.unitsn"
titlelst3
output 
## $title.estpse
## [1] "Net volume of live trees (at least 5 in dia), in cubic feet, and percent sampling error on forest land by forest type live"
## 
## $title.yvar
## [1] "Net volume, in cubic feet"
## 
## $title.estvar
## [1] "Net volume of live trees (at least 5 in dia)"
## 
## $title.unitvar
## [1] "ONEUNIT"
## 
## $title.ref
## [1] "Wyoming, 2011-2013"
## 
## $outfn.estpse
## [1] "tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPCD_forestland"
## 
## $outfn.rawdat
## [1] "tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPCD_forestland_rawdata"
## 
## $outfn.param
## [1] "tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPCD_forestland_parameters"
## 
## $title.rowvar
## [1] "Forest type"
## 
## $title.row
## [1] "Net volume of live trees (at least 5 in dia), in cubic feet, on forest land by forest type live; Wyoming, 2011-2013"
## 
## $title.unitsn
## [1] "cubic feet"

We can also create a simple barplot from the output:

## Create barplot
datBarplot(
      raw3$unit_rowest, 
      xvar = titlelst3$title.rowvar, 
      yvar = "est"
      )
plot

And a fancier barplot:

## Create fancier barplot
datBarplot(
      raw3$unit_rowest, 
      xvar = titlelst3$title.rowvar, 
      yvar = "est",
      errbars = TRUE, 
      sevar = "est.se", 
      main = FIESTAutils::wraptitle(titlelst3$title.row, 75),
      ylabel = titlelst3$title.yvar, 
      divideby = "million"
      )
plot

Example 9: Net cubic-foot volume of live trees by forest type and stand-size class, Wyoming, 2011-2013

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This examples adds rows and columns to the output, including FIA names, for net cubic-foot volume of live trees (at least 5 inches diameter) by forest type and stand-size class, Wyoming, 2011-2013. We also use the *_options functions to return output with estimates (est) and percent standard error (pse) in same cell - est(pse) with allin1 = TRUE and save data to an outfolder with savedata = TRUE and outfolder = outfolder.

tree4 <- modMAtree(
    MApopdat = MApopdat,         # pop - population calculations
    MAmethod = "greg",           # est - model-assisted method
    landarea = "FOREST",         # est - forest land filter
    estvar = "VOLCFNET",               # est - net cubic-foot volume
    estvar.filter = "STATUSCD  == 1",   # est - live trees only
    rowvar = "FORTYPCD",         # est - row domain
    colvar = "STDSZCD",          # est - column domain
    returntitle = TRUE,          # out - return title information
    savedata = TRUE,             # out - save data to outfolder
    table_opts = table_options(
      row.FIAname = TRUE,          # est - row domain names
      col.FIAname = TRUE,          # est - column domain names
      allin1 = TRUE                # out - return output with est(pse)
    ),
    savedata_opts = savedata_options(
      outfolder = outfolder,       # out - outfolder for saving data
      outfn.pre = "WY"             # out - prefix for output files
      )
    )

Again, we investigate the output of the returned list:

## Look at output list from modGBarea()
names(tree4)
output 
## [1] "est"      "pse"      "titlelst" "raw"      "statecd"  "invyr"
## Estimate and percent sampling error of estimate
tree4$est
output 
##                         Forest type         Large diameter
## 1:                      Douglas-fir  11,866,612.7 ( 79.00)
## 2:                 Engelmann spruce 149,865,021.5 ( 78.94)
## 3: Engelmann spruce / subalpine fir 113,586,516.8 ( 78.74)
## 4:                    Subalpine fir  49,388,166.9 ( 73.19)
## 5:                   Lodgepole pine 456,907,508.9 ( 34.84)
## 6:                            Aspen            -- (    --)
## 7:                       Nonstocked            -- (    --)
## 8:                            Total 781,613,826.8 ( 23.93)
##           Medium diameter        Small diameter  Nonstocked
## 1:            -- (    --)  3,462,472.0 ( 99.12) -- (    --)
## 2:  41,941,929.1 (175.15)           -- (    --) -- (    --)
## 3:  16,395,905.1 ( 66.30)  5,170,160.5 ( 71.46) -- (    --)
## 4:            -- (    --)           -- (    --) -- (    --)
## 5: 442,719,166.9 ( 21.99)  5,574,187.7 ( 77.89) -- (    --)
## 6:            -- (    --)           -- (    --) -- (    --)
## 7:            -- (    --)           -- (    --) -- (    --)
## 8: 501,057,001.1 ( 23.52) 14,206,820.3 ( 43.06) -- (    --)
##                       Total
## 1:    15,329,084.7 ( 63.95)
## 2:   191,806,950.6 ( 70.43)
## 3:   135,152,582.5 ( 66.37)
## 4:    49,388,166.9 ( 73.19)
## 5:   905,200,863.5 ( 19.75)
## 6:              -- (    --)
## 7:              -- (    --)
## 8: 1,296,877,648.2 ( 15.08)
## Raw data (list object) for estimate
raw4 <- tree4$raw      # extract raw data list object from output
names(raw4)
output 
##  [1] "unit_totest"   "unit_rowest"   "unit_colest"   "unit_grpest"  
##  [5] "domdat"        "plotweights"   "estvar"        "estvar.filter"
##  [9] "module"        "esttype"       "MAmethod"      "predselectlst"
## [13] "rowvar"        "colvar"        "areaunits"     "estunits"
head(raw4$unit_totest)   # estimates by estimation unit (i.e., ESTN_UNIT)
output 
##   ONEUNIT     nhat nhat.var NBRPLT NBRPLT.gt0 ACRES_GIS AREAUSED        est
## 1       1 1165.825  30923.7     56         34   1112412  1112412 1296877648
##        est.var    est.se    est.cv      pse  CI99left  CI99right  CI95left
## 1 3.826688e+16 195619213 0.1508386 15.08386 792995947 1800759350 913471036
##    CI95right   CI68left  CI68right
## 1 1680284261 1102342580 1491412717
head(raw4$totest)        # estimates for population (i.e., WY)
output 
## NULL
head(raw4$unit_rowest)   # estimates by row, by estimation unit (i.e., ESTN_UNIT)
output 
##   ONEUNIT                      Forest type      nhat    nhat.var NBRPLT
## 1       1                      Douglas-fir  13.78004    77.64629     56
## 2       1                 Engelmann spruce 172.42433 14746.63678     56
## 3       1 Engelmann spruce / subalpine fir 121.49504  6501.78676     56
## 4       1                    Subalpine fir  44.39736  1055.90466     56
## 5       1                   Lodgepole pine 813.72781 25826.51205     56
## 6       1                            Aspen   0.00000     0.00000     56
##   NBRPLT.gt0 FORTYPCD ACRES_GIS AREAUSED       est      est.var    est.se
## 1          2      201   1112412  1112412  15329085 9.608428e+13   9802259
## 2          4      265   1112412  1112412 191806951 1.824839e+16 135086607
## 3          5      266   1112412  1112412 135152582 8.045709e+15  89697877
## 4          2      268   1112412  1112412  49388167 1.306641e+15  36147491
## 5         23      281   1112412  1112412 905200864 3.195931e+16 178771664
## 6          0      901   1112412  1112412         0 0.000000e+00         0
##      est.cv      pse  CI99left  CI99right  CI95left  CI95right  CI68left
## 1 0.6394549 63.94549         0   40578030         0   34541159   5581151
## 2 0.7042842 70.42842         0  539766992         0  456571836  57469009
## 3 0.6636786 66.36786         0  366199002         0  310957191  45951822
## 4 0.7319059 73.19059         0  142497933         0  120235947  13441010
## 5 0.1974939 19.74939 444715574 1365686153 554814841 1255586886 727419973
## 6       NaN      NaN         0          0         0          0         0
##    CI68right
## 1   25077018
## 2  326144892
## 3  224353343
## 4   85335324
## 5 1082981754
## 6          0
head(raw4$rowest)        # estimates by row for population (i.e., WY)
output 
## NULL
head(raw4$unit_colest)   # estimates by column, by estimation unit (i.e., ESTN_UNIT)
output 
##   ONEUNIT Stand-size class      nhat    nhat.var NBRPLT NBRPLT.gt0 STDSZCD
## 1       1   Large diameter 702.62958 28262.84167     56         18       1
## 2       1  Medium diameter 450.42380 11221.16423     56         14       2
## 3       1   Small diameter  12.77118    30.23649     56          4       3
## 4       1       Nonstocked   0.00000     0.00000     56          0       5
##   ACRES_GIS AREAUSED       est      est.var    est.se    est.cv      pse
## 1   1112412  1112412 781613827 3.497417e+16 187013826 0.2392663 23.92663
## 2   1112412  1112412 501057001 1.388576e+16 117837837 0.2351785 23.51785
## 3   1112412  1112412  14206820 3.741649e+13   6116902 0.4305609 43.05609
## 4   1112412  1112412         0 0.000000e+00         0       NaN      NaN
##    CI99left  CI99right  CI95left  CI95right  CI68left CI68right
## 1 299898133 1263329520 415073463 1148154191 595636453 967591201
## 2 197526847  804587155 270099085  732014918 383872235 618241767
## 3         0   29962915   2217913   26195727   8123819  20289821
## 4         0          0         0          0         0         0
head(raw4$colest)        # estimates by column for population (i.e., WY)
output 
## NULL
head(raw4$unit_grpest)   # estimates by row and column, by estimation unit (i.e., ESTN_UNIT)
output 
##   ONEUNIT                                           grpvar      nhat
## 1       1                       Douglas-fir#Large diameter  10.66746
## 2       1                       Douglas-fir#Small diameter   3.11258
## 3       1                  Engelmann spruce#Large diameter 134.72075
## 4       1                 Engelmann spruce#Medium diameter  37.70358
## 5       1  Engelmann spruce / subalpine fir#Large diameter 102.10828
## 6       1 Engelmann spruce / subalpine fir#Medium diameter  14.73905
##       nhat.var NBRPLT NBRPLT.gt0                      Forest type
## 1    71.021071     56          1                      Douglas-fir
## 2     9.518513     56          1                      Douglas-fir
## 3 11310.014570     56          3                 Engelmann spruce
## 4  4361.052579     56          1                 Engelmann spruce
## 5  6464.613685     56          3 Engelmann spruce / subalpine fir
## 6    95.500443     56          1 Engelmann spruce / subalpine fir
##   Stand-size class STDSZCD FORTYPCD ACRES_GIS AREAUSED       est      est.var
## 1   Large diameter       1      201   1112412  1112412  11866613 8.788582e+13
## 2   Small diameter       3      201   1112412  1112412   3462472 1.177879e+13
## 3   Large diameter       1      265   1112412  1112412 149865022 1.399570e+16
## 4  Medium diameter       2      265   1112412  1112412  41941929 5.396634e+15
## 5   Large diameter       1      266   1112412  1112412 113586517 7.999709e+15
## 6  Medium diameter       2      266   1112412  1112412  16395905 1.181781e+14
##      est.se    est.cv       pse CI99left CI99right CI95left CI95right
## 1   9374744 0.7900101  79.00101        0  36014353        0  30240773
## 2   3432024 0.9912064  99.12064        0  12302781        0  10189116
## 3 118303443 0.7894000  78.94000        0 454594497        0 381735510
## 4  73461783 1.7515118 175.15118        0 231166942        0 185924378
## 5  89441092 0.7874270  78.74270        0 343971502        0 288887835
## 6  10870975 0.6630299  66.30299        0  44397681        0  37702625
##      CI68left CI68right
## 1  2543824.72  21189401
## 2    49468.39   6875476
## 3 32217229.75 267512813
## 4        0.00 114996578
## 5 24641118.08 202531916
## 6  5585178.40  27206632
head(raw4$grpest)        # estimates by row and column for population (i.e., WY)
output 
## NULL
## Titles (list object) for estimate
titlelst4 <- tree4$titlelst
names(titlelst4)
output 
##  [1] "title.estpse"  "title.yvar"    "title.estvar"  "title.unitvar"
##  [5] "title.ref"     "outfn.estpse"  "outfn.rawdat"  "outfn.param"  
##  [9] "title.rowvar"  "title.row"     "title.colvar"  "title.col"    
## [13] "title.unitsn"
titlelst4
output 
## $title.estpse
## [1] "Net volume of live trees (at least 5 in dia), in cubic feet (percent sampling error), by forest type and stand-size class on forest land live"
## 
## $title.yvar
## [1] "Net volume, in cubic feet"
## 
## $title.estvar
## [1] "Net volume of live trees (at least 5 in dia)"
## 
## $title.unitvar
## [1] "ONEUNIT"
## 
## $title.ref
## [1] "Wyoming, 2011-2013"
## 
## $outfn.estpse
## [1] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland"
## 
## $outfn.rawdat
## [1] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata"
## 
## $outfn.param
## [1] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_parameters"
## 
## $title.rowvar
## [1] "Forest type"
## 
## $title.row
## [1] "Net volume of live trees (at least 5 in dia), in cubic feet (percent sampling error), by forest type on forest land live; Wyoming, 2011-2013"
## 
## $title.colvar
## [1] "Stand-size class"
## 
## $title.col
## [1] "Net volume of live trees (at least 5 in dia), in cubic feet (percent sampling error), by stand-size class on forest land live; Wyoming, 2011-2013"
## 
## $title.unitsn
## [1] "cubic feet"
## List output files in outfolder
list.files(outfolder, pattern = "WY_tree")
output 
## [1] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland.csv"                
## [2] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_modMA_mase_greg.csv"
list.files(paste0(outfolder, "/rawdata"), pattern = "WY_tree")
output 
##  [1] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_colest.csv"                     
##  [2] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_domdat.csv"                     
##  [3] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_grpest.csv"                     
##  [4] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_modMA_mase_greg_domdat.csv"     
##  [5] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_modMA_mase_greg_unit_colest.csv"
##  [6] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_modMA_mase_greg_unit_grpest.csv"
##  [7] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_modMA_mase_greg_unit_rowest.csv"
##  [8] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_modMA_mase_greg_unit_totest.csv"
##  [9] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_rowest.csv"                     
## [10] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_totest.csv"                     
## [11] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_unit_colest.csv"                
## [12] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_unit_grpest.csv"                
## [13] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_unit_rowest.csv"                
## [14] "WY_tree_VOLCFNET_live_FORTYPNM_STDSZNM_forestland_rawdata_unit_totest.csv"

Example 10: Number of live trees by species, Wyoming, 2011-2013

View Example

We can use tree domain in estimation output rows:

## Number of live trees (at least 1 inch diameter) by species
tree5 <- modMAtree(
    MApopdat = MApopdat,         # pop - population calculations
    MAmethod = "greg",           # est - model-assisted method
    landarea = "FOREST",         # est - forest land filter
    estvar = "TPA_UNADJ",               # est - number of trees per acre 
    estvar.filter = "STATUSCD == 1",    # est - live trees only
    rowvar = "SPCD",             # est - row domain
    returntitle = TRUE,          # out - return title information
    table_opts = table_options(    
      row.FIAname = TRUE,          # est - row domain names
      allin1 = FALSE               # out - return output with est and pse
      )
    )

We can also look at the output list and estimates again:

## Look at output list
names(tree5)
output 
## [1] "est"      "titlelst" "raw"      "statecd"  "invyr"
## Estimate and percent sampling error of estimate
tree5$est
output 
##            Species    Estimate Percent Sampling Error
## 1    subalpine fir  68658860.9                  29.14
## 2 Engelmann spruce  50806944.2                  29.77
## 3   lodgepole pine 184898322.4                  18.59
## 4      limber pine   4461866.7                  90.07
## 5      Douglas-fir    24655901                  73.84
## 6    quaking aspen  11153476.9                  73.73
## 7            Total 344635372.3                  13.07

Example 11: Number of live trees (plus seedlings) by species, Wyoming, 2011-2013

View Example

We can also add seedlings.

Note: seedling data are only available for number of trees (estvar = TPA_UNADJ).

Note: must include seedling data in population data calculations.

MApopdat_seed <- modMApop(popTabs = list(tree = WYtree,
                                         cond = WYcond,
                                         seed = WYseed),
                     pltassgn = WYpltassgn,
                     auxdat = modeldat)
## Number of live trees by species, including seedlings
tree6 <- modMAtree(
    MApopdat = MApopdat_seed,         # pop - population calculations
    MAmethod = "greg",           # est - model-assisted method
    estseed = "add",             # est - add seedling data
    landarea = "FOREST",         # est - forest land filter
    estvar = "TPA_UNADJ",               # est - number of trees per acre 
    estvar.filter = "STATUSCD == 1",    # est - live trees only
    rowvar = "SPCD",             # est - row domain
    returntitle = TRUE,          # out - return title information
    table_opts = table_options(
      row.FIAname = TRUE,          # est - row domain names
      allin1 = FALSE)              # out - return output with est and pse
    )

And again we can look at our outputs and compare estimates:

## Look at output list
names(tree6)
output 
## [1] "est"      "titlelst" "raw"      "statecd"  "invyr"
## Estimate and percent sampling error of estimate
tree6$est
output 
##            Species    Estimate Percent Sampling Error
## 1    subalpine fir 396440112.5                  23.94
## 2 Engelmann spruce 107965157.9                  33.92
## 3   lodgepole pine 251790363.6                  18.03
## 4      limber pine  38477186.7                  92.27
## 5      Douglas-fir  49218941.8                  80.24
## 6    quaking aspen 105867206.7                  60.84
## 7            Total 949758969.2                  16.07
## Compare estimates with and without seedlings
head(tree5$est)
output 
##            Species    Estimate Percent Sampling Error
## 1    subalpine fir  68658860.9                  29.14
## 2 Engelmann spruce  50806944.2                  29.77
## 3   lodgepole pine 184898322.4                  18.59
## 4      limber pine   4461866.7                  90.07
## 5      Douglas-fir    24655901                  73.84
## 6    quaking aspen  11153476.9                  73.73
head(tree6$est)
output 
##            Species    Estimate Percent Sampling Error
## 1    subalpine fir 396440112.5                  23.94
## 2 Engelmann spruce 107965157.9                  33.92
## 3   lodgepole pine 251790363.6                  18.03
## 4      limber pine  38477186.7                  92.27
## 5      Douglas-fir  49218941.8                  80.24
## 6    quaking aspen 105867206.7                  60.84