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The Relationship Between Interest Rates and Agricultural Commodity Price Dynamics

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The U.S. Federal Reserve has undertaken several interest rate interventions in the past decade. This study explores the relationship between U.S. corn and soybean prices and Federal Reserve monetary policy interventions, in the short and long run.
Zhining Sun, Ani L. Katchova
wiley   +1 more source

Farmers' Financial Literacy—Scale Development and Linkages to Accounting Practices and Financial Outcomes

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
wiley   +1 more source

Context-dependent score based Bayesian information criteria [PDF]

open access: yes
In a number of applications, we argue that standard Bayes factor model comparison and selection may be inappropriate for decision making under specific, utility-based, criteria.
Underhill, Nick, Smith, J. Q.
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The Akaike Information Criterion With Parameter Uncertainty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
An instance crucial to most problems in signal processing is the selection of the order of a candidate model. Among the different exciting criteria, the two most popular model selection criteria in the signal processing literature have been the Akaike's ...
Seghouane, Abd-Krim
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The Growth Curves with Non-Linear Models of in Mixed-Sex of Caucasian Pheasants (Phasianus Colchicus Colchicus) [PDF]

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Poultry Science
The Caucasian pheasant (Phasianus colchicus colchicus) is a Phasianidae family poultry species that is an important animal-based protein source. This study aimed to estimate the growth traits of body weight (BW) in pheasants using Logistic (L), Gompertz (
E Arslan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bias correction of the Akaike information criterion in factor analysis

open access: yesJournal of Multivariate Analysis, 2016
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
openaire   +1 more source

Circularity, Sustainability, and the Quality of Coffee Sold via Vending Machines: What Do Italian Consumers Prefer?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vending is an important sector in the daily lives of many people, and coffee is the most frequently consumed product in the European market. Like many other sectors, vending is responding to the challenge of sustainable development by taking various actions, such as offering increasingly ecologically sound coffee while maintaining/improving ...
Alberto Bertossi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improved Performance of Model Fit Indices with Small Sample Sizes in Cognitive Diagnostic Models

open access: yesInternational Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2019
Selecting an appropriate cognitive diagnostic model (CDM) for data analysis is always challenging. Studies have explored several model fit indices for CDMs.
Ya-huei Yang, Hueying Tzou
doaj   +1 more source

Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Selection of variables in two-group discriminant analysis by error rate and Akaike's information criteria [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper deals with two criteria for selection of variables for the discriminant analysis in the case of two multivariate normal populations with different means and a common covariance matrix.
Fujikoshi, Yasunori
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