A neural network based modeling and sensitivity analysis of energy inputs for predicting seed and grain corn yields

Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 767-778

  Farjam, A ^a   Omid, M ^a   Akram, A ^a   Fazel Niari, Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b Agricultural Engineering Research Center of Parsabad Moghan   (Iran)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Corn production; Energy input; Regression; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975818479     PISSN: 16807073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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