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We analyze models that include geographic and temporal information and some covariates such as percentage of urban household, percentageof people between 24 and 49 years old, and infant mortality ratio of each county in 2011.

One of the most relevant measures for climate change mitigation is the conservation and regeneration of forests in our countries. The amount of stored carbon in the forest biomass becomes a relevant variable for public policy. The present article analyses the association of some dasometric variables, easily obtained, with tree biomass with the purpose of indirectly estimating it, given that direct measurement of tree biomass is a complex and very expensive task.