Yield and price forecasting for stochastic crop decision planning

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 362-380

  Kantanantha, Nantachai ^a   Serban, Nicoleta ^b   Griffin, Paul ^b  

^a KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop decision planning; Crop price forecasting; Crop yield forecasting; Functional model based prediction; Functional principal component analysis; Varying coefficient model

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84864829028     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: 15372693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13253-010-0025-7     Document Type: Article

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