Some results on the design of field experiments for comparing unreplicated treatments

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 394-410

  Martin, R J ^a   Eccleston, J A ^b   Chauhan, N ^c   Chan, B S P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c BIOCOMPATIBLES UK LTD   (United Kingdom)

^d ABN Amro Bank   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Dependent observations; Early generation variety trials; Generalized least squares; Optimality criteria

Indexed keywords

FIELD METHOD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845419258     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/108571106X154489     Document Type: Article

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