Research Article

A Simple Technique to Estimate the Flammability Index of Moroccan Forest Fuels

Table 3

Analysis of variance of the four sampling sizes applied to determine the flammability index (FI) through laboratory experimental tests performed on 31 tree and shrub species.

Source of variationSum of squaresDegree of freedomMean square -testProbability -value

FI-calculating methods0.667230.22240.1251 n.s.0.94532.622
Residual error938.83165281.7781
Totals939.4988531

n.s.: no significant effect at .