oatvar {faraway}

Yields of oat varieties planted in blocks

Description

Data from an experiment to compare 8 varieties of oats. The growing area was heterogeneous and so was grouped into 5 blocks. Each variety was sown once within each block and the yield in grams per 16ft row was recorded.

Format

The dataset contains the following variables

yield

Yield in grams per 16ft row

block

Blocks I to V

variety

Variety 1 to 8

Source

"Statistical Theory in Research" by R. Anderson and T. Bancroft, McGraw Hill,1952