The cure model: An improved way to describe seed germination?

Weed Research

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 516-524

  Onofri, A ^a   Mesgaran, M B ^b,c   Tei, F ^a   Cousens, R D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Censoring; Cure model; Dormancy; Germination; Survival analysis; Weeds

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; DATA SET; DORMANCY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRACTIONATION; GERMINATION; LINEARITY; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RESEARCH WORK; SEED; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; VELOCITY; WEED;

EID: 80052773199     PISSN: 00431737     EISSN: 13653180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3180.2011.00870.x     Document Type: Article

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