Investigation of within-bales variability of stickiness measurement

Cotton stickiness is a serions problem for many producing countries. In Sudan, 1000 bales of the 1996 production WERE selected and sampled to study the féasibility of a bale stickiness classification. Sixteen thousand samples tested on the Sticky Cotton Thermodetector show that within-bale variance increases with the mean. Statistical investigations show that the distribution of sticky points for certain bales is over-dispersed with respect to the Poisson distribution. Fitting of' Negative binomial distribution was studied, but the dispersion parameter seems to be dependent on the mean. This law will therefore be difficult to apply.

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Main Authors: Chanselme, Jean-Luc, Fadlalla, Ahmed Salih, Gozé, Eric, Tamime, O.F., Abdelatif, A.H.
Format: conference_item biblioteca
Language:eng
Published: ICAC
Subjects:Q60 - Traitement des produits agricoles non alimentaires, coton, propriété technologique, classification, adhésivité, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1926, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2572, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1653, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7409,
Online Access:http://agritrop.cirad.fr/477474/
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