Do economic variables follow scale or location-scale distributions?

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 196-204

  Antle, John M ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bias test; location scale; multiplicative error; scale; wheat production

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; WHEAT;

UNITED STATES;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 77956606517     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aap010     Document Type: Article

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