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corndata: Corn data in 8 counties in Iowa.

Description

Survey and satellite data for corn and soy beans in 12 Iowa counties, obtained from the 1978 June Enumerative Survey of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and from land observatory satellites (LANDSAT) during the 1978 growing season.

Usage

data("corndata")

Format

A data frame with 8 observations on the following 6 variables.

Source

- Battesse, G.E., Harter, R.M. and Fuller, W.A. (1988). An Error-Components Model for Prediction of County Crop Areas Using Survey and Satellite Data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 83, 28-36. - You, Y. and Chapman, B. (2006) Small Area Estimation Using Area Level Models and Estimated Sampling Variances. Survey Methodology, 32, 97-103.

Details

While the original dataset includes survey and satellite data for corn in 12 Iowa counties, this dataset contains only 8 counties' information where sample sizes are greater than 1.