A Bayesian approach to regional and local-area prediction from crop variety trials

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 403-419

  Theobald, Chris M ^a   Talbot, Mike ^b   Nabugoomu, Fabian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Biomathematics and Statistics for Scotland 'BioSS'   (United Kingdom)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Decision theory; Local area estimation; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Mixed effects model; Residual maximum likelihood; Variety by environment data

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; MARKOV CHAIN; YIELD;

EID: 5444224069     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/108571102230     Document Type: Article

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