Latin Squares in Practice and in Theory I

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4. References in print

Box, George E. P., Hunter, William G., Hunter, J. Stuart, Statistics for Experimenters Wiley, New York 1978

Fisher, Sir Ronald A., The Design of Experiments, 9th Ed. Hafner Press (Macmillan), New York 1971

Fisher, Sir Ronald A., and Yates, Frank Statistical Tables for Biological, Agricultural andMedical Research, 6th Ed. Hafner Press (Macmillan), New York 1963

Pearson, E. S., ``Student'' as Statistician, Biometrika 30 (1939)210-250

For further thought:

The Latin square design used in the formulation experiment is of a special type: rows cycle to the left as you move down the matrix. Why would this design not be appropriate in an agronomy experiment like the one described in this column? Fisher (see above) discusses this point.

• What is a Latin Square, and what is a Graeco-Latin Square?

• Agronomy experiments: Latin squares in real life

• The statistical analysis of a latin-square experiment

• References; For further thought