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Field Plans: Why the Biometrician Finds them Useful

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

K. Ryder
K. Ryder
Affiliation:
Statistics Department, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, England
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Summary

When agricultural experimenters send data to a statistics unit for analysis, they do not usually include a field plan of the experimental site unless specially requested to do so. But such a plan can be a great help to a biometrician: he can use it to check that the design used in the field was correctly described, and to arrange the plot residuals in the field layout as a way of detecting a fertility trend in the site and of relating anomalous values to particular locations on the ground. This paper gives examples of how a field plan can be used to the benefit of the experimenter.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , July 1981 , pp. 243 - 256
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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