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Title Quantitative methods for plant breeding / Walter Suza (editor), Kendall Lamkey (editor), Ken Moore, M. L. Harbur, Ron Mowers, Laura Merrick, Dennis Todey, Kendra Meade, William Beavis, Reka Howard, Ursula Frei, and Anthony Assibi Mahama
Published Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University, Digital Press, [2023]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 526 pages) : color illustrations
Series PBEA series
Plant Breeding E-Learning in Africa series
Contents About the PBEA Series -- Chapter 1: basic principles -- Chapter 2: distributions and probability -- Chapter 3: central limit theorem, confidence intervals, and hypothesis tests -- Chapter 4: categorical data -- Binary -- Chapter 5: categorical data multivariate -- Chapter 6: continuous data -- Chapter 7: linear correlation, regression and prediction -- Chapter 8: the analysis of variance (ANOVA) -- Chapter 9: two factor ANOVAs -- Chapter 10: mean comparisons -- Chapter 11: randomized complete block design -- Chapter 12: data transformation -- Chapter 13: multiple regression -- Chapter 14: nonlinear regression -- Chapter 15: multivariate analysis -- Algebra review guide -- Contributors -- Applied learning activities
Summary "This open textbook covers common statistics used in agriculture research, including experimental design in plant breeding and genetics, as well as the analysis of variance, regression, and correlation. Field book generation, data organization, quality checking, and graphical plotting are discussed. Finally, data analysis using common software packages is covered, followed by practices for presenting, interpreting, and summarizing results" -- publisher's website
Notes Attribution-NonCommercial
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY-NC 4.0 cc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ IaAS
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Iowa State University Digital Press, viewed November 11, 2024)
Subject Plant breeding -- Textbooks
Agronomy -- Textbooks
Crop science -- Textbooks
Quantitative genetics -- Textbooks
Form Electronic book
Author Suza, Walter P. (Walter Philip), editor.
Lamkey, Kendall R., editor.
Moore, Ken, contributor
Harbur, M. L., contributor
Mowers, Ron, contributor
Merrick, Laura, contributor
Todey, Dennis, contributor
Meade, Kendra, contributor
Beavis, William, contributor
Howard, Reka, contributor
Frei, Ursula, contributor
Mahama, Anthony Assibi, contributor
Iowa State University. Digital Press, distributor, publisher.