Jenkins Macedo

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What would you consider as the most challenging task developing a predictive model?

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Why do we need to be careful when using a predictive model to score new datasets?

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Which indicators influence your choice when deciding to select a potential journal publisher?

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What are your thoughts about publishing research findings categorised in these themes?

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What more could Normality Tests tell us apart from being a prerequisite test needed to be done prior to statistical analysis?

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Would you conduct the Least Significance Difference Test after results from ANOVA indicates that mean yield among treatments were highly significant?

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Which soil water balance estimation would you employ to calculate the soil water change [balance] in the field?

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