Experimental Design and Analysis for Tree Improvement

by Emlyn Williams, Chris Harwood, Colin Matheson

Description

This third edition of Experimental Design and Analysis for Tree Improvement provides a set of practical procedures to follow when planning, designing and analysing tree improvement trials. Using many fully worked examples, it outlines how to: design field, glasshouse and laboratory trials; efficiently collect and construct electronic data files; pre-process data, screening for data quality and outliers; analyse data from single and across-site trials; and interpret the results from statistical analyses. The authors address the many practical issues often faced in forest tree improvement trials and describe techniques that will efficiently give conclusive results. The techniques provided are applicable to the improvement of not only trees, but to crops in general. Building on the success of the second edition, this new edition has been fully revised to include the construction of p-rep and spatial designs using the commercially available software package for design generation (CycDesigN). For analysis of the examples, it provides online Genstat and SAS programs and a link to R programs.

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Author Biography

Dr Emlyn Williams, a statistician with over 40 years' research experience, is at the forefront of statistical research into the construction and analysis of efficient experimental designs.; ;

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher/Imprint CSIRO / CAB International
  • Publication Date February 2024
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9781800624504 / 1800624506
  • Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
  • FormatPaperback
  • Primary Price 75 GBP
  • Pages192
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Edition3
  • Dimensions245 X 170 mm
  • Reference Code6047

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