Revisiting the evaluation of robust regression techniques for crop yield data detrending

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 205-211

  Finger, Robert ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

detrending; robust regression; yield distributions

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; CROP YIELD; ESTIMATION METHOD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956595119     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aap021     Document Type: Article

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