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| Beattie, Bruce R.; Watts, Myles J.. |
| Contrary to recent commentary, reliance on individual faculty initiative and learned societies in setting the academic agenda has greater promise for contributing to the land grant mission than more administratively driven and dominated systems. Learned societies have the advantage in evaluating disciplinary content and are thereby the appropriate evaluators of quality. A distinguishing characteristic of all university professors should be a continuing commitment to active participation in research in support of their principle function, teaching, be their students on-campus undergraduate or graduates, off-campus clientele, or professional peers. The popular notion that all, or even most recognized peer-review journals are oriented mainly to disciplinary... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession. |
| Ano: 1987 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/32238 |
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| Beattie, Bruce R.. |
| There is some justification for the impression that agricultural economics has entered an era of relatively greater budget stress than that of the recent past. However, optimal strategies for sustaining or enhancing departmental productivity in research, teaching and extension are invariant to the budget level. These "strategies" are discussed in the form of "ten commandments" to department heads. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession. |
| Ano: 1983 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/32093 |
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| Burt, Oscar R.; Frank, Michael D.; Beattie, Bruce R.. |
| A heuristic criterion for choosing an acceptable level of bias in ridge regression is presented. The criterion is based on a noncentral F-test of the stochastic restrictions implicit in the ridge estimator. An appropriate significance level for the test is based on conjunctive use of strong and weak mean square error criteria. The procedure is illustrated in estimating a Cobb-Douglas production function for the Central Valley of California using factor shares as priors rather than the null vector. Preliminary results suggest that a conjunctive SMSE/WMSE criterion with more reasonable priors selects an estimator with smaller bias than ridge trace. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 1987 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/32237 |
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