Practical Statistics and Experimental Design for Plant and Crop Science provides a user-friendly, non-technical introduction to statistics and the principles of plant and crop experimentation. It presents the design and analysis of experiments using techniques which give the plant / crop scientist an understanding of the commonly used experimental techniques and associated practical problems. The reasoning behind each method is explained before a relevant practical example of its use is given. Table of Contents: Preface Basic Principles of Experimentation Basic Statistical Calculations Basic Data Summary The Normal Distribution, the t-Distribution and Confidence Intervals Introduction to Hypothesis Testing Comparison of Two Independent Sample Means Linear Regression and Correlation Curve Fitting The Completely Randomized Design The Randomized Block Design The Latin Square Design Factorial Experiments Comparison of Treatment Means Checking the Assumptions and Transformation of Data Missing Values and Incomplete Blocks Split Plot Designs Comparison of Regression Lines and Analysis of Covariance Analysis of Counts Some Non-parametric Methods Appendix 1: The Normal Distribution Function Appendix 2: Percentage Points of the Normal Distribution Appendix 3: Percentage Points of the t-Distribution Appendix 4a: 5 Per Cent Points of the F-Distribution Appendix 4b: 25 Per Cent Points of the F-Distribution Appendix 4c: 1 Per Cent Points of the F-Distribution Appendix 4d: 01 Per Cent Points of the F-Distribution Appendix 5: Percentage Points of the Sample Correlation Coefficient (r) When the Population Correlation Coefficient is 0 and n is the Number of X.Y. Pairs Appendix 6: 5 Per Cent Points of the Studentized Range, for Use in Turkey and SNK Tests Appendix 7: Percentage Points of the Chi-Square Distribution Appendix 8: Probabilities of S or Fewer Successes in the Binomial Distribution with n 'trials' and p = 0.5 Appendix 9: Critical Values of T in the Wilcoxon Signed Rank or Matched Pairs Test Appendix 10: Critical Values of U in the Mann-Whitney Test References Further Reading Index