Fitting SB Distributions to Fruit Sizes with Implications for Prediction Methods

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 333-346

  De Silva, H Nihal ^a   Lai, C D ^b   Ball, Roderick D ^c  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c SCION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fruit size distribution; Johnson distribution; Maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 0642332152     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1400449     Document Type: Article

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