Evaluating cultivars in unbalanced on-farm participatory trials

Field Crops Research

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 105-115

  Virk, D S ^a   Witcombe, J R ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GLM; Logistic regression; On farm trials; Participatory varietal selection; REML; Statistical analysis; Unbalanced trials; Wheat

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LOGISTIC REGRESSION; ON-FARM TRIALS; PARTICIPATORY VARIETAL SELECTION; UNBALANCED TRIALS;

AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; CULTIVATION; DETECTION METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; WHEAT;

ASIA; EURASIA; GUJARAT; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 38349093615     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2007.10.017     Document Type: Article

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