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A more precise statistical analysis for certain grazing trials and other large scale animal experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

D. Conniffe
D. Conniffe
Affiliation:
Economics and Rural Welfare Centre, An Foras Talúntais, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Summary

In some grazing experiments stocking rates are adjusted during the experiment. For these and other experiments in which the initial number of animals per treatment is subsequently reduced a more powerful statistical analysis than the normal analysis of variance may be possible. The methodology of the analysis is presented in this paper and applied to an example.

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Research Article
Information
Animal Production , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 1977 , pp. 103 - 107
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1977

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