Crop-yield distributions revisited

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 108-120

  Ramirez, Octavio A ^a   Misra, Sukant ^a   Field, James ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn Belt; Crop yields; Nonnormality; Probability distributions; Texas cotton

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD;

UNITED STATES;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037327160     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8276.00106     Document Type: Article

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