Cooper, Joseph C.; Wallander, Steven - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
regression (QR) to provide both robustness to outliers and information on the scale effects of time and weather variables. For U … precipitation using a traditional parametric expected-yield estimator, our quantile-FFT regression evaluated at the median, and our … QR-FFT regression that incorporates information on the tails of the distribution. We find that quadratic terms are not …