Performance of detrending models of crop yield risk assessment: evaluation on real and hypothetical yield data

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 109-117

  Ye, Tao ^a   Nie, Jianliang ^a   Wang, Jun ^a   Shi, Peijun ^a   Wang, Zhu ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crop yield series; Detrending model performance; Monte Carlo simulation; Trend assumptions

Indexed keywords

AUTOREGRESSIVE MOVING AVERAGE MODEL; CROPS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AUTO-REGRESSIVE INTEGRATED MOVING AVERAGE; AUTOREGRESSION MODELS; CROP YIELD; LOCALLY-WEIGHTED REGRESSION MODEL; MODEL PERFORMANCE; SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES; STATIONARY TIME SERIES; TREND ASSUMPTIONS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROP YIELD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84911372806     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-014-0871-x     Document Type: Article

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