Experimental design issues and statistical evaluation techniques for site-specific management

The State of Site-Specific Management for Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 301-335

  Gotway Crawford, Carol A ^a   Bullock, Donald G ^b   Pierce, Francis J ^c   Stroup, Walter W ^d   Hergert, Gary W ^e   Eskridge, Kent M ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^e West Central Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental factors; Experimental design issues; Field characterization; Response surface methodology; Site specific management; Spatial variability; Statistical evaluation techniques

Indexed keywords

EID: 85104317888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/1997.stateofsitespecific.c14     Document Type: Chapter

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