AJUSTES DE MODELOS VOLUMÉTRICOS PARA O CLONE Eucalyptus grandis x E. urophylla CULTIVADOS NO AGRESTE DE PERNAMBUCO

This research aimed to evaluate the volumetric models fitting for Eucalyptus clone using normal and t-Student distributions, based on data from an experiment implanted at the Agronomic Institute of Pernambuco (IPA) in Sao Bento do Una, PE. In order to set the modified volumetric models of Silva and Bailey, modified Chapman and Richard, Schumacher and Hall, and modified Brody, we used data from 62 trees rigorously scaled by Smalian method. The criteria for equation comparing were the weighted value (PV) between the corrected index adjustment (IAc) and absolute mean error percentage (EPAM). According to the results, the model that best fits for the two distributions is Schumacher and Hall, with better adjustment related to the Student-t distribution. The t-Student distribution promoted improvements of equations regarding the Normal distribution, compared to the two distributions per equation.