Modelling the structure of Australian wool auction prices

MODSIM05 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Advances and Applications for Management and Decision Making, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1737-1743

  Caccetta, L ^a   Chow, C ^a   Dixon, T ^a   Stanton, J ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hauteur; Micron; Pricemaker; Recursive partitioning; Tree based regression; Wool

Indexed keywords

HAUTEUR; MICRON; PRICEMAKER; RECURSIVE PARTITIONING; TREE-BASED REGRESSION; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; MONOTONIC BEHAVIOUR; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION METHOD; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; QUALITY CHARACTERISTIC; TREE-BASED METHODS;

COSTS; DECISION MAKING; FIBERS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; LINEAR REGRESSION; PLANT EXTRACTS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VEGETABLES; WOOL; ADDITIVES; COMMERCE;

YARN;

EID: 77956263350     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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