paddy: Yield data of paddy

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Yield data of paddy

Description

Dataset on paddy yield used by Chandra et al. (2016).

Usage

data(paddy)

Format

A data frame with 70 observations on the following 9 variables:

D

Small area code

latitude

Latitude of each small areas

longitude

Longitude of each small areas

n

Sample size of each small areas

y

Average yield data of paddy crop for the year 2009-10 (direct estimates for the small areas)

var

Estimated variance of y

x1

First covariate (average household size) used by Chandra et al. (2016)

x2

Second covariate (female population of marginal household) used by Chandra et al. (2016)

indicator

Index for sample and non-sample area

Reference

Chandra, H., salvati, N., chambers, R. and Sud, U. C. (2016). A Spatially Nonstationary Fay-Herriot Model for Small Area Estimation - An Application to Crop Yield Estimation. Seventh International Conference on Agricultural Statistics. Rome. DOI:10.1481/icasVII.2016.f35.

Examples

data(paddy)
yield <- paddy$y
summary(yield)

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