CRAN package: Experimental Design

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agricolae comprises the functionality of statistical analysis into experimental designs applied specially for field experiments in agriculture and plant breeding: Lattice, factorial, complete and incomplete block, Latin Square, Greaco, Alpha designs, Cyclic designs, Split and strip plot design, augmented block design, comparison of multi-location trials, comparison between treatments, re-sampling, simulation, biodiversity indexes and consensus cluster.

The Post Hoc test (Multiple comparisons)

Parametric methods:
-    Fisher: Least significant difference (LSD) and Adjust P-values (Bonferroni,
-    Tukey: Honestly significant difference (HSD)
-    Duncan: Minimum significante difference (MSD)
-    Waller-Duncan: The Waller-Duncan k-ratio t test is performed on all main effect means in the MEANS statement. See the K-RATIO option for information on controlling details of the test.
-    Scheffe: Scheffe 1959, method is very general in that all possible contrasts can be tested for significance and confidence intervals can be constructed for the corresponding linear. The test is conservative.
-    Student Newman Keul
(SNK) is derived from Tukey, but it is less conservative (finds more differences). Tukey controls the error for all comparisons, where SNK only controls for comparisons under consideration. The level by alpha default is 0.05.
-    Ryan, Einot and Gabriel and Welsch multiple range test (REGW). Multiple range tests for all pairwise comparisons, to obtain a confident inequalities multiple range tests.

Non-parametric methods:
-    Kruskal-Wallis. It makes the multiple comparison with Kruskal-Wallis. The alpha parameter by default is 0.05. Post hoc test is using the criterium Fisher's least significant difference. The adjustment methods include the Bonferroni correction and others.
-    Friedman test. The data consists of b mutually independent blocks of k random variables. The data conforme a table b by k. A ranking is established in each block, ranking values are used in the comparison of the k variables.
-    Median test
for several independent samples. The median test is designed to examine whether several samples came from populations having the same median.
-    The Van Der Waerden (Normal Scores).
The data consist of k samples of possibly unequal sample size. The post hoc test uses Fisher's minimum criterion difference.

Version 1.0:    December 09, 2006

Version 1.2-7 August 31, 2017

August 2017.