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SERIES C  
Applied Statistics

The Bayesian choice of crop variety and fertilizer dose, by C. M. Theobald and M. Talbot
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, Applied Statistics, Volume 51 (2002) part 1, 23 - 36

The file springbarpr.dat contains the data shown in Table 1 of the paper on the yields of three varieties of spring barley.

x denotes the vector of applied nitrogen levels in the trials (kilograms per hectare)

x.f denotes the vector of future applied nitrogen levels used for calculating posterior expected utility (kilograms per hectare)

yield denotes the array of grain yields recorded for the three varieties and seven environments in the trials

Chris Theobald
Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland
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The King's Buildings
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E-mail: cmt@bioss.ac.uk

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