Description
oats: Yield of oats with four fertilizer treatments.
Usage
oats
To load the file into ASReml-R and view the contents use the commands:
library(asreml)
data(package="asreml")
data("oats")
View(oats)
Format
| A data frame with 9 columns and 72 rows: | |
| Blocks | Complete field replicates, factor with 6 levels |
| Nitrogen | Factor with 4 levels |
| Subplots | Factor with 4 levels |
| Variety | Factor with 3 levels |
| Wplots | Factor with 3 levels |
| yield | Grain yield in 1/4 lbs. |
| Column | Field column index factor |
| Row | Field row index factor |
| nrate | Numeric nitrogen rates |
Details
The yield of oats from a split-plot field trial with three varieties and four levels of nitrogen fertilizer. The experiment was a split plot with 6 blocks of 3 main plots (varieties), each split into 4 sub-plots (nitrogen).
References
Yates F (1935). “Complex Experiments.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 2, pp. 181-247.