Evaluation of soil test information in agricultural decision-making

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 447-461

  Babcock, Bruce A ^a   Carriquiry, Alicia L ^a   Stern, Hal S ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Fertilizer rates; Posterior distributions; Soil tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039015440     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2986067     Document Type: Article

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