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Validating Predicting Equations: The Supply of Feeder Calves in West Virginia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

John P. Kuehn*
Affiliation:
Agricultural Economics, West Virginia University
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The objectives of this article were first to develop a viable predicting model of the West Virginia feeder calf supply using calves marketed as the dependent variable. The second objective was to validate the predicting model using the “leave-out-one-year” procedure and to derive an alternative predicting equation using the jackknife technique. The purpose of the emphasis on the second objective was to provide a simple and direct demonstration, of a useful and necessary technique, for the large group of applied economists, who often use econometric methods, but who do not consider themselves to be econon etric specialists.

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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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