ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
Efficiency of cropping system designs via base contrast
Authors 1, 1, 1
Affiliations
- Department of Applied Mathematics Agricultural, University of Lublin, Akademicka 13, P.O. Box 158, 20-934 Lublin, Poland
Abstract
The present article is a continuation of previous papers by the same authors devoted to the efficiency of crop rotation experiments. We focus on plans distinguished by the cyclical pattern of the incidence matrix. For practical reasons, we slightly modify the efficiency coefficient. The relation between the resulting efficiency coefficients is examined. In addition, we provide a background material on crop rotation experiments.
Keywords
cropping system experiment, inter-contrast, efficiency factor, base contrast
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