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Statistical Distributions of Soil Properties

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A basic idea concerning collections of soil observations is to obtain statistical parameters from the data distribution. In soil, we recognise two kinds of statistical distributions relating to discrete or continuous random variables.

“The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities.”

James Clerk Maxwell

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    Alex. B. McBratney, Budiman Minasny, Melissa Moyce & Thomas F. A. Bishop

  2. Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

    Irina Mikheeva

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McBratney, A.B., Minasny, B., Mikheeva, I., Moyce, M., Bishop, T.F.A. (2018). Statistical Distributions of Soil Properties. In: McBratney, A., Minasny, B., Stockmann, U. (eds) Pedometrics. Progress in Soil Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63439-5_3

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