Unbiased estimator for the total number of flowers on a tree

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 707, Issue , 2006, Pages 245-252

  Wulfsohn, Dvoralai ^a   Maletti, Gabriela M ^a   Toldam Andersen, Torben B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Section for Crop Science   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biological variance; Error variance; Fractionator; Malusxdomestica; Stereology; Systematic sampling

Indexed keywords

MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 33745745337     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2006.707.31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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