A new and first-of-its-kind book provides a guide for the use of modern
statistical methods in agricultural and natural resources sciences. Ed Gbur,
professor of agricultural statistics with the University of Arkansas System
Division of Agriculture and Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life
Sciences, is a lead author.
Analysis of Generalized Linear Mixed
Models in the Agricultural and Natural Resources Sciences is by a team of authors who are part
of a multi-state project to educate scientists in the agricultural and natural
resources sciences about modern statistical methodology, says a press release
from the publisher.
Gbur said, “There’s a gap between
statistical theory and practice and the statistical methodologies currently
being used within the agricultural and natural resources communities.
There needs to be a change in the standard statistical operating procedure from
the last decade.”
The book by Edward E. Gbur, Walter W. Stroup,
Kevin S. McCarter, Susan Durham, Linda J.
Young, Mary Christman, Mark West and Matthew Kramer is published by the
American Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of America and Crop Science
Society of America. It is available in hard cover at www.SocietyStore.org, Barnes & Noble’s online store and Amazon’s online store. Read an
excerpt at www.agronomy.org.