There is increasing interest in understanding the role of neighborhood-level factors on the health of individuals. Many large-scale epidemiological studies that accurately measure health status of individuals and individual risk factors exist. Sometimes these studies are linked to area-level...

The objective of this study is to evaluate and model the risks of corn and soybean production. This study focuses on the risk of revenue variability that arises from changes in prices, yields shortfalls or both. There are several models for price and yield risk factors for corn and soybeans. For...

The objective of this study is to evaluate and model the yield risk associatedwith major agricultural commodities in the U.S. We are particularly concernedwith the nonstationary nature of the yield distribution, which primarily arisesbecause of technological progress and changing environmental...