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From the Publisher's description: The first book to integrate modern statistics with crop, plant and soil science, this one bridges this gap. The breadth and depth of topics covered is unusual. Each of the main chapters could be a textbook in its own right on a particular class of data structures or models. The cogent presentation in one text allows research workers to apply modern statistical methods that otherwise are scattered across several specialized texts. The combination of theory and application orientation conveys ''why'' a particular method works and ''how'' it is put in to practice. The accompanying CD-ROM is a key component of the book. For each of the main chapters additional sections of text are available that cover mathematical derivations, special topics, and supplementary applications. It supplies the data sets and SAS code for all applications and examples in the text, macros which the authors developed, and SAS tutorials ranging from basic data manipulation to advanced programming techniques and publication quality graphics. Contemporary statistical models can not be appreciated to their full potential without a good understanding of the theory. They also can not be applied to their full potential without the aid of statistical software. This volume provides the essential mix of theory and applications of statistical methods pertinent to research in life sciences.