Design and planning of long-term experiments

Canadian Journal of Plant Science

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 595-602

  McRae, K B ^a   Ryan, D A J ^b  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

experimental design; Long term experiments; planning of experiments; REML; residual maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

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EID: 0030474494     PISSN: 00084220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/cjps96-107     Document Type: Article

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