Some physical properties of almond nut and kernel and modeling dimensional properties

Agricultural Engineering International: CIGR Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 256-265

  Mirzabe, Amir Hossein ^a   Khazaei, Javad ^a   Chegini, Gholam Reza ^a   Gholami, Omid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Almond nut; Generalized extreme value distribution; Gravimetric properties; Log likelihood; Normal distribution; Regression; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879705422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16821130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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