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Periodic functions of Julian calendar dates were used to incorporate seasonal variation into logistic regression models designed to predict daily people-caused forest fire occurrence in the Northern Region of the province of Ontario. Three years of independent test data were used to evaluate predictions produced by the models.
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Martell et al. (1989) studied this question.
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