landsat_means: Means of the LANDSAT Data for Corn and Soybeans
In rsae: Robust Small Area Estimation

landsat_means

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Means of the LANDSAT Data for Corn and Soybeans

Description

The landsat data is a compilation of survey and satellite data from Battese et al. (1988). The county-specific population means of pixels of the segments under corn and soybeans, respectively, are available in the data.frame landsat_means.

Usage

data(landsat_means)

Format

A data frame with 12 observations (counties) on the following 3 variables.

(intercept): all ones.
MeanPixelsCorn: county-specific mean of number of pixels classified as corn (LANDSAT readings).
MeanPixelsSoybeans: county-specific number of pixels classified as soybeans (LANDSAT readings).

Details

The data.frame landsat_means is an aggregation of the data.frame landsat.

References

Battese, G. E., Harter, R. M., and W.A. Fuller (1988). An error component model for prediction of county crop areas using. Journal of the American Statistical Association 83, 28–36. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("https://doi.org/10.2307/2288915")}