oats {asreml} | R Documentation

## Split plot design.

### Description

Yield of oats with four fertilizer treatments.

### Usage

    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, 181–247.

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