Agricultural Field Experiments: Design and Analysis

by Roger G. Petersen

Overview

This text provides statistical and biometrical procedures for designing, conducting, analyzing and interpreting field experiments. It addresses the most important research topics in agriculture, including agronomy, breeding and pasture trials; farming systems research; and intercropping research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040054628
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	02/11/1994
Series:	Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	426
File size:	15 MB
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Table of Contents

Basic Principles * The Field Plot * Basic Experimental Designs * Agronomy Trials * Variety Trials * Combined Analysis of Several Experiments * Experiments with Perennial Crops * Pasture Trials * On-Farm Trials Farming Systems Research * Intercropping Research * Appendix * Table 1: 2500 Randomly Assorted Digits * Table 2: Students t Distribution * Table 3: Percentage Points of the F Distribution * Table 4: Percentage Points of the Ration s2 (mas)/s2 (min) * Table 5: Percentage Points of the Chi-Squared Distribution * Table 6: Percentage Points of the Studentized Range (Q) * Table 7: Minimum-Average-Risk t Values.

Editorial Reviews

...a refreshing...informative text, which includes stimulating ideas and hints to the eager reader, as well as sound problem sets to teach from, exercise, learn, and understand the fascinating field of soil-water-solutes interactions and transport phenomena.

Soil & Tillage Research

...an ideal text for a course on 'field plot techniques'...Petersen has collected the basic contemporary methodology of the subject and presented it in a well-organized and very readable manner.

Journal of the American Statistical Association

...an excellent reference and instruction manual for all aspects of field trials...There is a wealth of useful discussion on practical topics.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society

Explains and demonstrates the statistical and biometrical procedures for designing, conducting, analyzing, and interpreting field experiments in agronomy, breeding, long-term and pasture trials, farming systems, intercropping, and other concerns of agricultural research. Organized by area of investigation rather than by class of experiment. Assumes a knowledge of college algebra and the statistical methods of interval estimation, significance testing, and the analysis of variance and simple linear regression and correlation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

". . .a refreshing. . .informative text, which includes stimulating ideas and hints to the eager reader, as well as sound problem sets to teach from, exercise, learn, and understand the fascinating field of soil-water-solutes interactions and transport phenomena. "
—-Soil & Tillage Research
". . .an ideal text for a course on 'field plot techniques'. . .Petersen has collected the basic contemporary methodology of the subject and presented it in a well-organized and very readable manner. "
—-Journal of the American Statistical Association
". . .an excellent reference and instruction manual for all aspects of field trials. . .There is a wealth of useful discussion on practical topics. "
—-Journal of the Royal Statistical Society

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