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Table 3.

Estimated parameters for the PDE model (2) from the LIDAR data set using the Bayesian method (BM), the parameter cascading method (PC), and the two-stage method (TS).

		θ_D	θ_S	θ_A
Estimates	BM	−0.4470	0.2563	−0.0414
	PC	−0.3771	0.2492	−0.0407
	TS	−0.1165	0.2404	−0.0436