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Dr. Kim Iles is a consultant specializing in Forest Inventory. He lives on Vancouver Island
in
Technical Specialties
Kim specializes in:
- Variable Plot and 3P sampling techniques.
- Review and Improvements of existing forest inventory and harvest cruising designs.
- Weight Scaling Techniques for log scaling purposes.
- Statistical Analysis of Data (particularly forest sampling data).
- Teaching and Legal consulting (Forest
Biometrics, Statistics, Cruise Design and Inventory Techniques)
(also teaching statistics as a professor at
If your
company or agency needs a review of your procedures, Kim's contact information is below.
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To contact Kim:
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Kim’s Second book is now available.
The Title is “The Compassman, The Nun, and the Steakhouse Statistician”
Hardback, bonded leather cover, about 360 pages.
The intended audience is forest inventory professionals and young
biometricians (perhaps at the Masters level) and those who have to solve
practical sampling problems in practical situations – also those who want
to get beyond equations and grasp some principles, including some newer
procedures.
40 chapters, (38 of them short- about 4-6 pages) contain the further
adventures of the character “OH” from the first book, as well as
Dr. Smiley, plus a young statistician, and a compassman in training (see
Examples below).
Each chapter examines practical issues of sampling, professional
development, or statistical techniques.
Two longer chapters on Regression and Hypothesis testing (only on the CD
of the first text) are printed to conclude the book. There is some overlap with the first text,
but a much different approach, and it is a useful review.
While the first text was necessarily technical and involved quite a few
detailed examples and mathematics, this book has very little math.
A listing of the
chapters is available here : Contents
Several chapters
exhibiting typical style can be previewed here : Examples
Canada
USA $35, plus $15 shipping to the USA
These shipping costs are for single copies, for multiple copies I will
check the cost and get back to you.
For ordering
(1) Do you want it signed ? If so, to whom ?? Default is nothing
written in the book.
(2) Do you want a receipt or invoice?
(who should it be made out to?) Default – none
sent
(3) What is your complete shipping address ?
(it arrives in about a week for North
America )
Kim distributes the book himself, but cannot handle credit cards.
Send an email to order the book, with payment by check at your
convenience.
If you are coming to the
Western Mensuration Conference, or a BC cruiser meeting
you can pick up the book there (email me to bring one), and save the shipping
costs.
A civilized alternative is to drop by
the Nanaimo
have a glass of sherry in the library, and pick it up from the source.
(same for the first text, described
below)
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Kim’s second edition of the first text is also still
available
The Title is “A Sampler of Inventory Topics”
(the five year
supply on the first edition turned out to last only one year - who would have
guessed ?)
The intended audience is measurement people who already know the basics and
want more depth, and those that want a thorough grounding in sampling for
forestry. It covers Statistics, Variable
Plot Sampling and 3P sampling in detail.
The new printing is in a blue
cover, rather than the original gray.
As with the first printing, the text is hardback, 869 pages, and if you wish
you can download a
pdf file copy of individual chapter contents
[279K]
Kim distributes the book himself, but cannot handle credit cards.
Send an email to order the book, with payment
by check at your convenience.
-- QUESTIONS --
(1) Which edition do you want ? (first or
second – second is more correct and virtually the same)
Default is the second edition.
(2) Do you want it signed ? If so, to
whom ?? Default is nothing written in the book.
(3) Do you want a receipt or invoice? (who should it be made out
to?) Default – none sent
(4) What is your complete shipping address ? (it arrives in about a week for
The current cost is :
- - Canadian:
$60 + $10 shipping (single copy) = $70.00 Canadian
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- - Other than the
Air mail is quick, but expensive - surface mail is the reverse.
Books will be sent with copies of any significant
typos noted on an additional inserted sheet of paper.
Known typos are also are recorded
here : Typos
Spreadsheets !! -
A few of the spreadsheets have had minor corrections, or changes. Before using any EXCEL spreadsheets
for
important work, contact me to be sure there are no known typos, especially for
calibrations of Relascopes, etc.
Some of these were caused by protection issues which
affect the macros.
To get copies of the changes, please directly email me.
Those who do not buy the book are also welcome to these
spreadsheets.
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A few of Kim’s past projects you might want to check out
- Design of the British
Columbia Vegetation Inventory (250,000,000 acres)
BC Vegetation Inventory Stand. & Proc. - Design of handheld computer
program for 3P sampling and Statistics Courses
DR Systems (look for EcoSoft 3P Program) - Writing for the John Bell
& Associates Newsletter on
John Bell and Associates Home Page
Resume of Kim Iles
View Complete Resume
resume - PDF file for printing
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Some of Kim’s discussion papers (in *pdf format) which might interest you :
- Some Directions
in Forest Inventory
An invited paper for the special inventory edition of the Journal of Forestry - Constructing
a Safety Net in the Circus of High Technology
An invited paper for the 1995 Finland IUFRO conference - Driving
Mr. Lew
In celebration of Lew Grosenbaugh, at the conference in his honor - Discussion
about copy editors who change text without telling the author
if you can believe it, this does happen. - Some
Practical Aspects of Designing a Large Inventory
An invited paper at the Boise Inventory conference