Description: This text provides statistical and biometrical procedures for designing, conducting, analyzing and interpreting field experiments. It addresses the most important research topics in agriculture, including agronomy, breeding and pasture trials; farming systems research; and intercropping research.
Review Quotes: ". . .a refreshing. . .informative text, which includes stimulating ideas and hints to the eager reader, as well as sound problem sets to teach from, exercise, learn, and understand the fascinating field of soil-water-solutes interactions and transport phenomena. " ---Soil & Tillage Research ". . .an ideal text for a course on 'field plot techniques'. . .Petersen has collected the basic contemporary methodology of the subject and presented it in a well-organized and very readable manner. " ---Journal of the American Statistical Association ". . .an excellent reference and instruction manual for all aspects of field trials. . .There is a wealth of useful discussion on practical topics. " ---Journal of the Royal Statistical Society