The use of statistical methods in agricultural experiments
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Hussey, F.P. 'The use of statistical methods in agricultural experiments'. - Dublin: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland,Vol. XV No. 7, 1936/1937, pp1-18Download Item:
Abstract:
There is nothing new in the idea of agricultural experiments.
Modern agriculture is largely the result of successful experiment, and
the student of agricultural history finds that the facts of one generation
are the fruits of the experiments of previous ones. Our own
industrious Department of Agriculture has for over 30 years carried
on a country-wide series of experiments on all types of crops and
stock and every phase of agricultural effort. It is not generally
appreciated what an enormous amount of agricultural experience has
thereby been accumulated; few countries can boast that their agriculture
is so well or so widely charted. It is not, however, with such
schemes of multiple experiments that this paper is intended to deal;
it may be remarked, however, in passing that from the broad point
of arriving at a result from sheer weight of evidence the simple
system of trials generally practised in these experiments is perfectly
satisfactory. A comparison of different treatments in side-by-side
plots in one hundred different centres is bound to provide at least
interesting evidence of their relative merits under differing conditions.
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Read on Friday, 20th November, 1936
Author: Hussey, F.P.
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Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of IrelandVol. XV No. 7 1936/1937
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Agricultural experiments, Statistial methodsISSN:
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