Long-Term Experiments with cropping systems: Case studies on data analysis

European Journal of Agronomy

Volumn 77, Issue , 2016, Pages 223-235

  Onofri, Andrea ^a   Seddaiu, Giovanna ^b   Piepho, Hans Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Mixed model; Repeated measures; Rotation; Variance heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AUTOCORRELATION; CROP ROTATION; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FARMING SYSTEM; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84959898716     PISSN: 11610301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2016.02.005     Document Type: Article

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