Are crop yields normally distributed? A reexamination

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 888-901

  Atwood, Joseph ^a   Shaik, Saleem ^b   Watts, Myles ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Error component; Normality; Panel data; Power; Type II bias; Yield distributions

Indexed keywords

CROP YIELD; METHODOLOGY; PANEL DATA; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 0345017621     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8276.00495     Document Type: Article

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