In the article we describe a method of comparison of stands according to the appearance of plants. Contrary to methods which are or have been already in use, our comparison is purely euclidean: the stands are vectors in a multidimensional space (base lines are the plants) and the comparisons among them are expressed by their scalar products. We consider the stands in regard to plant species and their interrelations as random samples which enables us to get an estimate for the angles between the base lines and so also for necessary scalar products.
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