Table 1 Global characteristics and DBH distribution of observed and predicted harvests. The observed number of trees (N _o) and total volume (V _o) removed for each of the twelve empirical harvests to be simulated were used as inputs for the algorithm. N _o was rounded because the algorithm only accepts integers as target number of trees. For each harvest, the algorithm removed N _s = N _o trees and V _s = V _o (1 ± 0.01) for each of the 5,000 runs. Similarity between simulated and observed harvesting DBH distributions was assessed by Pearson's χ² test, through mean χ² and percentage of simulated distributions replications deemed similar to the observed one. Distances between observed and mean predicted distributions were also assessed by χ². Observed and predicted DBH distributions were deemed “identical” for mean χ² below 7.81 and at least 75% of identical distributions

From: Reconstructing harvesting diameter distribution from aggregate data