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Adelchi Azzalini, Peter J. Diggle, Prediction of Soil Respiration Rates from Temperature, Moisture Content and Soil Type, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 43, No. 3 (1994), pp. 505-526
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