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Uncertainties and REDD+: Implications of applying the conservativeness principle to carbon stock estimates

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  1. In theory s.e. is the standard deviation of sample means or totals, which would be obtained when repeating sampling often, so that a set of various means (or totals) would be obtained. In sampling practice s.e. is estimated as the quotient formed by the standard deviation among sampling units (enumerator) and the square root of the number of sampling units (denominator).

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I would like to thank the anonymous reviewer, who improved my springboard editorial substantially by most useful comments. Furthermore, I thank Laura Carlson for the language editing.

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Knoke, T. Uncertainties and REDD+: Implications of applying the conservativeness principle to carbon stock estimates. Climatic Change 119, 261–267 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-012-0662-7

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