Hennessy, David A. - Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), … - 2007
distributions are normal. Simulations show how asymmetries in resource availabilities determine skewness. Extreme value theory is … asymmetries in resource availabilities determine skewness. Extreme value theory is used to
suggest a negative yield skew whenever ….
Keywords: beta-normal distribution, crop insurance, extreme value theory, Liebig technology,
limiting factors, order statistics …