Biometrical Letters Vol. 44(2), 2007, pp. 105-128
Joint Regression Analysis is shown to be extremely robust to missing observations. Thus, using a series of "alfa-designs" of winter rye cultivars, it was shown that with up to 40% of missing observations the cultivars selected would be the same. In this study we considered missing observations incidences varying from 5% to 75%, with a step size of 5%. For each incidence the positions of missing observations were randomly generated in triplicate.
Joint Regression Analysis; Robustness; missing observations; Linear regressions; L2 environmental indexes.