Graduate students in agricultural and environmental sciences will beintroduced so the research process and statistical methods to plan, conduct, and interpret experiments. SAS will be used to solve problems.
Prerequisites: AMR120 (Ex ASE120) or equivalent.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
1. Introduction to principles of experimental design
2. Distributions and sampling, hypothesis testing. Calculation of sample
size
3. Fundamentals of ANOVA
4. Orthogonal contrasts
5. Mean separation
6. Blocked and Latin square designs
7. Transformations
8. Factorial analysis
9. Unbalanced designs
10. Fixed, random, and mixed models
11. Split plot designs and repeated measures
12. Covariance analysis
13. Non-parametric methods