Table 4. Statistic of the F-test summary of site index curves for C. japonica and national site index curves for C. japonica.

Site Index range	Mean*		Variance*		F-value	P-value
	α	β	α	β
Site Index 12	13.40	12.97	10.37	8.31	1.2475	0.3736
Site Index 14	15.64	15.12	14.11	11.25	1.2549	0.3704
Site Index 16	17.87	17.28	18.43	14.83	1.2427	0.3757
Site Index 12 under stand age	9.52	9.40	1.61	2.11	0.7607	0.4320
Site Index 14 under stand age	11.11	10.97	2.18	2.90	0.7527	0.4294
Site Index 16 under stand age	12.70	12.50	2.85	3.81	0.7489	0.4282
Site Index 12 over stand age	15.58	14.92	2.94	1.73	1.6955	0.2882
Site Index 14 over stand age	18.17	17.38	4.00	2.33	1.7144	0.2843
Site Index 16 over stand age	20.77	19.88	5.23	3.01	1.7386	0.2793

Note: α is Gyeongsang-do and β is national scale.