Design of Experiments for Agriculture And the Natural Sciences

Hoshmand (business and management, Daniel Webster College, New Hampshire) offers students and applied researchers of agricultural and natural sciences a guide to designing and analyzing science experiments. Readers are assumed to be familiar with statistical concepts such as the normal, bi-nominal, chi-square, and t distributions but not with the analysis of variance. He emphasizes the logical underpinnings of design and analysis, expecting readers to extend the principles he presents to contexts he does not. No date is noted for the first edition; the second uses a step-by-step process to explain the concepts, and numbers equations consecutively within each chapter. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)