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On the Standard Errors and Other Moments for Ratios of Biological Measurements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

B. A. Oyejola  and
R. Mead
B. A. Oyejola
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Statistics, University of Reading, Reading RG6 2AN, England
R. Mead
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Statistics, University of Reading, Reading RG6 2AN, England
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Summary

A method of obtaining the standard error and some other moments for the ratios of biological measurements is given, with the conditions to be satisfied by the variables used to form such ratios. Some applications of the distributional properties of the ratios in the analysis of results from experiments are discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , October 1989 , pp. 473 - 484
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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