Uma abordagem Bayesiana para análise de sobrevivência de clones de eucaliptos no pólo gesseiro do Araripe-PE

Abstract

Aiming at to contribute, as alternative to minimize the resources of impacts,mainly, for the search of combustible material to take care of the energy demand of the Brazilian half-barren region, we use the techniques of analysis of survival for understanding of a forest of eucalyptus to the long one of the time, and with this to ration the use wooden as combustible for ceramics, bakeries and existing calcinatory of plaster in region. The data given proceeding from a transversal study of 1500 cells of eucalyptus, divided in 4 stratus, taking as base the period of 03/2002 to 09/2004. The graph of probability was used initially for, being based on the test of Anderson-Darling, takes the decision of which function of probability would use in such a way in the classic study as in the Bayesian boarding. A time taken to the decision of choice of the probability distribution, we use the method of Kaplan-Meier and the Actuarial method (life table) to determine the estimates of the parameters and the test distribution free log-rank to test if the curves of the function of probability differed between categories from one same one variable. We used this test to the level of significance of 5%. For these analyses, it was used statistical software Minitab 13 version and statistical package SAS.In the Bayesian boarding was used method Carlo the Mount Chain of Markov (MCMC) for estimate of parameters, using as priori the distribution gamma,found in literature as the distribution that more good was adjusted for biological data and as function of density, used it of the Weibull distribution, chosen as of the better adjustment to the data according to test of Anderson-darling. For thisanalysis software Winbugs 1.4 was used. The results how much to the analysis of the parameters they had indicated that the joined estimates had been closed, same using distinct methods of estimation. As much was concluded that the best distribution to analyze the population in question is the Weibull, according to test of Anderson-Darling and as method for estimation of the parameters of the distribution, the classic method,how much the Bayesian method, reveals good estimators, verified for the amplitude of the intervals reliable 95%. In face of the results, we conclude that if it must have one better control of the eucalyptus, in first the six months of the plantation.