Forecasting herd structure and milk production for production risk management

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1805-1813

  St Pierre, N R ^a   Jones, L R ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FARME Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete Markov process; Forecasting; Risk management

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CATTLE; DAIRYING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; LACTATION; METHODOLOGY; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; FORECASTING; LACTATION; MARKOV CHAINS; MILK; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK MANAGEMENT; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035431010     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(01)74619-X     Document Type: Article

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