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Table 2. Descriptive Statistics of the Simulated Yield and Price Data

Statistics Year1 Year2 Year3 Year4 Year5 Year1

Year2 Year3 Year4 Year5


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Whitman Simulated Yield (bushel/acre)

Grant Simulated Yield (bushel/acre)

Mean

75.28

75.93

76.77

77.36

78.24

75.19

76.27

76.30

77.34

78.02

Std Dev.

7.26

7.22

7.28

7.06

7.23

7.49

8.15

8.36

9.46

9.65

Skewness

-0.01

-0.03

0.02

0.07

-0.04

-0.08

-0.02

0.03

-0.05

0.02

Kurtosis

0.24

0.14

-0.03

0.07

-0.005

0.08

0.26

-0.09

0.16

-0.4


Portland Cash Price (dollar/bushel)              CBOT Futures Price (dollar/bushel)

Mean

3.93

3.86

3.82

3.79

3.77

3.56

3.51

3.49

3.46

3.44

Std Dev.

0.66

0.91

1.07

1.21

1.34

0.68

0.96

1.15

1.29

1.44

Skewness

0.02

0.02

0.06

0.10

0.06

-0.04

0.02

0.10

0.07

0.05

Kurtosis

-0.05

0.06

-0.06

0.20

-0.12

0.03

0.01

-0.20

-0.26

-0.31



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