The Use of an Electronic Spreadsheet to Solve Linear and Non-Linear "Stochastic" Feed Formulation Problems

Journal of Applied Poultry Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 110-121

  Pesti, Gene M ^a   Seila, Andrew F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic spreadsheet; Feed formulation; Linear programming; Stochastic formulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004788520     PISSN: 10566171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/japr/8.1.110     Document Type: Article

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