A comparison of estimation methods for fitting Weibull and Johnson's SB distributions to mixed sprucefir stands in northeastern North America

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Modelling diameter distributions of Betula alba L. stands in Northwest Spain with the two-parameter Weibull function (2007, result): “Zhang et al. (2003) obtained better results with this method than with the moments and percentiles approaches in conjunction with the three-parameter function for mixed sprucefir stands in northeastern North America.”
Comparison of beta, Johnson’s SB, Weibull and truncated Weibull functions for modeling the diameter distribution of forest stands in Catalonia (north-east of Spain) (2007, methodology): “We used estimation methods that have proved to give good fitting results in previous studies (e.g., Zhang et al. 2003), although the assumptions concerning some parameters could have been more refined.”
Characterization of diameter distribution data in near-natural forests using the Birnbaum–Saunders distribution (2008, methodology): “The error indexes act as the weighted sums of the absolute differences between theoretical and empirical numbers (eD) and basal areas (eBA) of trees in each diameter class (Reynolds et al. 1988; Zhang et al. 2003; Podlaski 2006).”