Orthogonal contrasts: definitions and concepts

The single degree of freedom of orthogonal contrasts is a useful technique for the analysis of experimental data and helpful in obtaining estimates of main, nested and interaction effects, for mean comparisons between groups of data and in obtaining specific residuals. Furthermore, the application o...

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Main Author: Maria Cristina Stolf Nogueira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2004-02-01
Series:Scientia Agricola
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162004000100020&tlng=en