Estimating the nitrous oxide emission rate from the soil surface by means of a diffusion model

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 385-403

  Pedersen, Asger Roer ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Discrete observations; Emission rate; Martingale estimating function; Nitrous oxide; Repeated measurements; Stochastic differential equation; Stochastic model; Trace gas

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034336052     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00196     Document Type: Article

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