Ranking crop yield models: A comment

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1105-1110

  Ramírez, Octavio A ^a   McDonald, Tanya ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexible parametric probability distribution models; Yield modeling and simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750035477     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2006.00919.x     Document Type: Note

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