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Professor Ken Moore Spring 2020
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Assignments

Tuesday January 14, 2020

Topic: Principles of Experimental Design
Assigned Reading: Pirsig, 1974. Selection from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Additional Reading: Bowley, Chapter 1.
Smith, 1909. Agronomy Journal 1:84-89.
Assignment: Please fill out this form and return to me by the next class meeting .
Student Information Form

Thursday January 16, 2020

Topic: One Factor Designs
Assigned Reading: McIntosh, 2019. Glaz and Yeater, Chapter 2, pp. 19-35.
Broman, 2018. Data Organization in Spreadsheets. American Statistician 72:2-10.
Additional Reading: Bowley, Chapter 4, pp. 35-41.
McIntosh, 2015. Agronomy Journal 107:706-717.
Student, 1926. Agronomy Journal 18:703-719.
Webster, 2007. European Journal of Soil Science 58:74-82.
Assignment: Organizing Data in Excel, v 2016 / Organizing Data in Excel, v 2010 / Organizing Data in Excel, v2007
Homework / Data
Interactive: Completely Randomized Designs

Tuesday January 21, 2020

Topic: Hypothesis Testing and Statistical Errors
Assigned Reading: Garland-Campbell, 2018. Glaz and Yeater, Chapter 1.
Additional Reading: Campbell et al., 2015. Agronomy Journal 107:718-729.
Casler, 2018. Glaz and Yeater, Chapter 4.
Assignment: Homework
Interactive: Type I and Type II Errors

Thursday January 23, 2020

Topic: Multiple Comparison Procedures
Assigned Reading: Saville and Rowarth, 2008. Journal of Natural Resources & Life Sciences Education 37:74-82.
Additional Reading: Saville, 2018. Glaz and Yeater, Chapter 5.
Carmer, 1976. Crop Science 16:95-99.
Carmer and Walker, 1985. Journal of Agronomic Education 14:19-26.
Carmer and Walker, 1982. Agronomy Journal 74:122-124.
Assignment: Homework / Data

Tuesday January 28, 2020

Topic: Contrasts
Assigned Reading: Chew, 1976. HortScience 11:348-357.
Additional Reading: Bowley, Chapter 4, pp. 53; Chapter 6, pp. 85-94.
Assignment: Homework / Data

Thursday January 30, 2020

Topic: Regression
Assigned Reading: Richter and Piepho, 2018. Glaz and Yeater, Chapter 6.
Miguez et al., 2018. Glaz and Yeater, Chapter 15.
Additional Reading: Bowley, Chapter 5, pp.64-80.
Archontoulis and Miguez, 2015. Agronomy Journal 107:786-798.
Belanger el. 2000. Agronomy Journal 92:902-908.
Carmer and Seif. 1963. Agronomy Journal 55:387-389.
Moore et al. 2017. Simple Models for Describing Ruminant Herbivory.
Parton and Innis. 1972. Technical Report 153, Natural Resource Ecology Lab., Colorado State Univ.
Petersen, 1977. Agronomy Journal 69:205-208.
Sari et al. 2018. Agronomy Journal 110:2331-2342.
Webster. 1997. European Journal of Soil Science 48:557-566.
Assignment: Homework / Data
Interactive: Fitting Linear Models
Fitting Nonlinear Models

Tuesday February 4, 2020

Topic: Data Transformation
Assigned Reading: Piepho, 2009. Agronomy Journal 101:865-869.
Additional Reading: Bowley, Chapter 8.
Limpert et al. 2001. BioScience 5:341-352.
Stroup, 2015. Agronomy Journal 107:811-827.
Stroup, 2018. Glaz and Yeater, Chapter 16.
Assignment: Homework / Data
   

Thursday February 6, 2020

Topic: Factorial Experiments
Assigned Reading: Bowley, Chapter 10, pp. 163-167.
Additional Reading: Bergerud. 1996. American Statistician 50:228-233.
Kitsche, 2015. Journal Agronomy and Crop Science 201:69-79.
Assignment: Homework / Data

Tuesday February 11, 2020

Topic: Examining Interactions
Assigned Reading: Vargas et al., 2018. Glaz and Yeater, Chapter 7.
Additional Reading: Carmer et al., 1989. Agronomy Journal 665-672.
Crossa et al., 2015. Agronomy Journal 107:736-747.
Vargas et al., 2015. Agronomy Journal 107:748-762.
Assignment: Homework / Data
Interactive: Examining Interactions

Thursday February 13, 2020

Topic: Expected Mean Squares
Assigned Reading: Bowley, Chapter 10, pp. 164-166.
Moore and Dixon, 2015. Agronomy Journal 107:763-771. See section on ALTERNATIVE RULES FOR EXPECTED MEAN SQUARES, pp.767-769.
Additional Reading: Choe et al., 2017. The R Journal 9:252-261.
Assignment: Homework / Data

Thursday February 20, 2020

Topic: Tests of Significance and Pooling
Assigned Reading: Moore and Dixon, 2015. CSA News, Jan., p.15.
Additional Reading:
Assignment: Homework

Tuesday February 25, 2020

Topic: Nested Designs
Assigned Reading: Bergerud. 1996. American Statistician 50:228-233.
Additional Reading:
Assignment: Homework

Thursday February 27, 2020

Topic: Restrictions on Randomization
Assigned Reading: Anderson and McLean, 1974. American Statistician 23:145-152.
Additional Reading:
Assignment: Homework / Data

Tuesday March 3, 2020

Topic: Randomized Complete Block Design
Assigned Reading: Casler, 2018. Glaz and Yeater, Chapter 3, pp. 53-61.
Additional Reading: Bowley, Chapter 4, pp. 40-49.
Newman et al., 1997. Ecology 78:1312-1320.
Assignment: Homework / Data
Interactive: Compare CRD & RCBD

Thursday March 5, 2020

Topic: Randomized Complete Block Design
Assigned Reading: Lin et al., 1993. Agronomy Journal 85:168-171.
Additional Reading: Piepho, 1997. Agronomy Journal 89:718-723.
Littell et al., 1996. Ch. 1 in SAS System for Mixed Models.
Assignment: Homework / Data

Tuesday March 10, 2020

Topic: Analysis of Covariance / Nearest Neighbor Analysis
Assigned Reading: McCarter, 2018. Glaz and Yeater, Chapter 9.
Additional Reading: Bowley, Chapter 8, pp. 135-139.
Casler, 1999. Agronomy Journal 91:75-81.
Stroup et al., 1994. Crop Science 34:62-66.
Assignment: Homework / Article / Data

Thursday March 12, 2020

Topic: Split-Plot Designs
Assigned Reading: Bowley, Chapter 9, pp. 168-175.
 
Additional Reading:
Assignment: Homework / Data

Tuesday March 24, 2020

Topic: Split-Plot Designs
Assigned Reading: Hurlbert, 1984. Ecological Monographs 54:187-211.
Additional Reading:
Assignment: Homework / Data

Thursday March 26, 2020

Topic: Repeated Measures
Assigned Reading: Gezan and Carvalho, 2018. Glaz and Yeater, Chapter 10.
Additional Reading: Bowley, Chapter 9, pp. 175-183.
Littell et al., 1989. HortScience 24:37-40.
Littell et al., 1998. Journal of Animal Science 76:1216-1231.
Preece, 1986. Experimental Agriculture 22:187-198.
Assignment: Homework / Data

Thursday April 2, 2020

Topic: Mixed Model Procedures
Assigned Reading: Piepho, 2003. Journal Agronomy & Crop Science 189:310-322.
Additional Reading: Douglass, 2009.Comparison of Features and Applications of four Linear Model Procedures.
McLean et al., 1991. Am. Statistician 45:54-64.
Spilke et al., 2005. Journal Agronomy & Crop Science 191:47-54.
Assignment: Homework / Data

Tuesday April 7, 2020


Topic: Long-Term and Crop Rotation Experiments
Assigned Reading: Payne, 2018. Glaz and Yeater, Chapter 11.
Additional Reading: Payne, 2015. Agronomy Journal 107:772-785.
Richter and Kroschewski, 2006. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 192:55-71.
Assignment: Homework / Data

Thursday April 9, 2020

Topic: Environmental Replication
Assigned Reading: Moore and Dixon, 2015. Agronomy Journal 107:763-771.
Additional Reading: Bowley, Chapter 10, pp. 186-191.
McIntosh, 1983. Agronomy Journal 75:153-155.
Moore et al., 1992. Design of On-Farm Grazing Experiments.
Assignment: Homework / Data

Tuesday April 14, 2020

Topic: Combined Experiments
Assigned Reading: Dixon et al., 2018. Glaz and Yeater, Chapter 8.
Additional Reading: Bowley, Chapter 14, pp. 259-268.
Cherney and Volenec, 1992. Crop Science 32:841-846.
Johnson et al., 1992. Crop Science 32:43-46.
Lin et al., 1986. Crop Science 26:894-900.
Sauvant et al., 2008. Animal 2:1203-1214.
St-Pierre, 2001. J. Dairy Sci. 84:741-755.
Assignment: Homework

Thursday April 16, 2020

Topic: Latin Square Designs
Assigned Reading: Jones et al., 2016. Agronomy Journal 107:20-24.
Additional Reading: Bowley, pp. 152-153.
Vogel et al., 1991. Journal Range Management 44:379-382.
Assignment: Homework / Data

Tuesday April 21, 2020

Topic: Spatial Correlation / Analysis
Assigned Reading: Burgueno, 2018. Glaz and Yeater, Chapter 12.
van Es and van Es, 1993. Agronomy Journal 85:420-428.
Additional Reading: Casanoves et al., 2005. Crop Science 45:1927-1933.
Kravchenko et al., 2006. Agronomy Journal 98:823-829.
Kravchenko and Bullock, 1999. Agronomy Journal 91:393-400.
Oliver et al., 1989. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 14:259-269.
van Es et al., 2007. Geoderma 140:346-352.
Assignment: Homework / Data

Thursday April 23, 2020

Topic: Lattice Designs
Assigned Reading: Casler, 2018. Glaz and Yeater, Chapter 3, 61-63.
Additional Reading: Bowley, Chapter 9, pp. 154-158.
Casler, 1999. Agronomy Journal 91:75-81.
Assignment: Homework / Data
Interactive: Balanced incomplete block design for given parameters

Tuesday April 28, 2020

Topic: Augmented Designs
Assigned Reading: Burgueno et al., 2018. Glaz and Yeater, Chapter 13.  
Additional Reading: Bowley, Chapter 9, pp. 158-161.
Federer and Raghavarao, 1975. Biometrics 31:29-35.
Wolfinger et al., 1997. Agronomy Journal 89:856-859.
Assignment: Homework / Data

Thursday April 30, 2020

Topic: Review Session
Assigned Reading: Nelson and Rawlings, 1983. Journal of Agronomic Education 12:100-105.
Casler, 2015. Agronomy Journal 105:1-14.
Additional Reading: Dyke, 1997. Field Crops Research 51:165-187.
Webster, 2001. European Journal of Soil Science 52:331-340.
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