Dealing with correlation in designed field experiments: part II
Published at May 10, 2019 · 12 min read
With field experiments, studying the correlation between the observed traits may not be an easy task. Indeed, in these experiments, subjects are not independent, but they are grouped by treatment factors (e.g., genotypes or weed control methods) or by blocking factors (e.g., blocks, plots, main-plots). I have dealt with this problem in a previous post and I gave a solution based on traditional methods of data analyses. In a recent paper, Piepho (2018) proposed a more advanced solution based on mixed models....