Climate, agriculture, and hunger: statistical prediction of undernourishment using nonlinear regression and data-mining techniques

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2367-2390

  Shortridge, Julie E ^a   Falconi, Stefanie M ^a   Zaitchik, Benjamin F ^b   Guikema, Seth D ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate; data mining; food security; hunger; regression; undernourishment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941994267     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2015.1032216     Document Type: Article

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