Corn and Soybean Mean Number of Pixels per Segment for 12 Iowa Counties

County means of number of pixels per segment of corn and soy beans, from satellite data, for 12 counties in Iowa. The dataset includes population size, sample size, and means of auxiliary variables used in the dataset cornsoybean.

Usage

data(cornsoybeanmeans)

Format

A data frame with 12 observations on the following 6 variables:

CountyIndex

numeric county code.

CountyName

name of the county.

SampSegments

number of sample segments in the county (sample size).

PopnSegments

number of population segments in the county (population size).

MeanCornPixPerSeg

mean number of corn pixels per segment in the county.

MeanSoyBeansPixPerSeg

mean number of soy beans pixels per segment in the county.

Source

Battese, G.E., Harter, R.M., and Fuller, W.A. (1988). *An Error-Components Model for Prediction of County Crop Areas Using Survey and Satellite Data.* *Journal of the American Statistical Association*, 83, 28–36.

Details

This dataset is provided for demonstration purposes and is originally distributed with the sae package.

Examples

data(cornsoybeanmeans)
head(cornsoybeanmeans)
#>   CountyIndex CountyName SampSegments PopnSegments MeanCornPixPerSeg
#> 1           1 CerroGordo            1          545            295.29
#> 2           2   Hamilton            1          566            300.40
#> 3           3      Worth            1          394            289.60
#> 4           4   Humboldt            2          424            290.74
#> 5           5   Franklin            3          564            318.21
#> 6           6 Pocahontas            3          570            257.17
#>   MeanSoyBeansPixPerSeg
#> 1                189.70
#> 2                196.65
#> 3                205.28
#> 4                220.22
#> 5                188.06
#> 6                247.13