Statistical Design and Analysis for Intercropping Experiments. Vol.2 - Three or More Crops

Intercropping is an area of research for which there is a desperate need, both in developing countries where people are rapidly depleting scarce resources and still starving, and in developed countries, where more ecologically and economically sound ways of feeding ourselves must be developed. The only published guidelines for conducting such research and analyzing the data have been scattered about in various journal articles, many of which are hard to find. This book condenses these methods and will be immensely valuable to agricultural researchers and to the statisticians who help them design their experiments and interpret their results.

List of contents

From the contents:

Introduction to Volume II.- One Main Crop Grown With More Than One Supplementary Crop.- Three or More Main Crops-Density Constant.- Varying Densities For Some or All Crops in a Mixture.- Mixing Ability Effects When Individual Cultivar Responses Are Available.- Intercrop Mixtures When Individual Crop Responses Are Not Available.- Spatial and Density Arrangements.- Some Analytical Variations for Intercropping Studies.- Applications of Intercropping Procedures to Other Fields.- An Intercropping Bibliography.

Summary

Intercropping is an important technique in increasing agricultural productivity. This book will be an important reference to agricultural researchers and the statisticians who help them plan experiments.

Product details

• Authors: W. T. Federer, Walter T. Federer, Walter Theodore Federer
• Assisted by: K. Krickeberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9780387985336
• ISBN: 978-0-387-98533-6
• No. of pages: 262
• Weight: 599 g
• Illustrations: w. 34 figs.
• Series: Springer Series in Statistics; Springer Series in Statistics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics