Course detail

LZT5858 - Fundamentals of Experimental Designs in Animal Science and Pasture


Credit hours

In-class work
per week
Practice
per week
Credits
Duration
Total
10
5
6
3 weeks
90 hours

Instructor
Gerson Barreto Mourão

Objective
To enable students to understand the basic concepts of experimental designs and analyzes from studies and research with animals and pastures.

Content
1. Basic principles of animal experimentation; 2. Designs (completely randomized, randomized blocks, Latin squares); 3. Multiple comparisons; 4. Regression in variance analysis; 5. Factorial and split-plot experiments; 6. Fundamental assumptions of variance analysis;

Bibliography
BARBIN, D., 1994. Planejamento e análise estatística de experimentos agronômicos, Piracicaba, SP - 135 p. MONTGOMERY, D.C. 1991. Design and analysis of experiments. Jonh Wiley and Sons, N.Y., 649 p. PIMENTEL-GOMES, F. & GARCIA, C.H. Estatística Aplicada a Experimentos Agronômicos e Florestais exposição com exemplos e orientações para uso de aplicativos. FEALQ, Piracicaba,SP. 2002. 309 p. MEAD, R. & CURNOW, R.N. Statistical Methods in Agriculture and Experimental Biology, 3ª Edição. Champman & Hall/CRC, USA. 2002, 304 p. STEEL, R. G. D. e T. H. TORRIE, 1980. Principles and procedures of statistics. McGraw-Hill, Nova York, 481 p. VIEIRA, S. Estatística Experimental. 2a ed. Ed. Atlas, São Paulo. 1999. 185p. Periódicos científicos: Journal of Animal Science, Poultry Science, Journal of Dairy Science.