Agroclimatology-based yield model for carrot using multiple linear regression and artificial neural networks

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 863-873

  Thiagarajan, Arumugam ^a   Lada, Rajasekaran R ^a   Muthuswamy, Sivakami ^a   Adams, Azure ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84877268183     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: 14350645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2012.0237     Document Type: Article

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