Statistics and Crop research: An Introduction
Statistical approaches are useful to researchers at all stages of their research, from planning through publishing. However, we must remember that statistics will be useless if the study is badly designed. Inappropriate application of statistical methods, on the other hand, leads to inaccurate findings. The quality of the investigation's findings and conclusions is highly dependent on how well the experiment design and statistical analysis of the results match up. At research centres where scientists and expert statisticians collaborate, better quality investigation planning, conducting, and reporting is frequently achieved. However, in the majority of cases, researchers employ statistical approaches based on their knowledge and insight. According to surveys of biological and agricultural publications published at the turn of the century, up to 70% of study papers used or interpreted statistics inaccurately
David Warner
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