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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 copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Agricultural Field Experiments: Design and Analysis FROM THE CRITICS
Journal of the American Statistical Association
...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 Royal Statistical Society
...an excellent reference and instruction manual for all aspects of field trials...There is a wealth of useful discussion on practical topics.
Soil & Tillage Research
...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.
Journal of the American Statistical Association
...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.
Soil & Tillage Research
...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.Read all 7 "From The Critics" >