| Preface | p. x |
| A Note to Students | p. xi |
| Symbols and Acronyms | p. xii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Principles of Good Experiments | p. 1 |
| Randomization | p. 2 |
| Local Control | p. 3 |
| Summary | p. 3 |
| Blocking | p. 4 |
| Allocating Animals to Blocks and Treatments | p. 7 |
| Improvement in Precision Due to Blocking | p. 9 |
| Double Blocking | p. 10 |
| Confounding | p. 13 |
| Block X Treatment Interaction | p. 15 |
| Summary | p. 16 |
| Exercise 2.1 | p. 16 |
| Exercise 2.2 | p. 17 |
| Separating Treatment Means | p. 19 |
| Statistical Problems with Student's 't'-test | p. 20 |
| The Philosophy of Separating Treatment Means | p. 20 |
| An Appropriate Use of Multiple Range Testing | p. 23 |
| The Meaning of 'Significance' | p. 23 |
| Proving Two Things Equal | p. 25 |
| The Balance of Probability Argument | p. 26 |
| Dose-Response Trials | p. 27 |
| Summary | p. 29 |
| References | p. 29 |
| Exercise 3.1 | p. 29 |
| Exercise 3.2 | p. 30 |
| How Many Animals? | p. 31 |
| Estimating the CV of Future Experimental Material | p. 32 |
| Estimating the Difference to be Expected | p. 34 |
| Applying the Equation | p. 36 |
| Some Examples | p. 36 |
| What Are the Chances of Success? | p. 37 |
| Tabulation of Number of Replicates | p. 38 |
| What to Do if There Are Not Enough Animals | p. 39 |
| Summary | p. 40 |
| Exercise 4.1 | p. 40 |
| Exercise 4.2 | p. 41 |
| Exercise 4.3 | p. 41 |
| Change-over Designs | p. 42 |
| Latin Squares | p. 43 |
| Balanced Latin Squares | p. 46 |
| Balanced Latin Squares with an Extra Period | p. 48 |
| Switchback Designs | p. 49 |
| When to Use Change-over Designs | p. 50 |
| Summary | p. 51 |
| Reference | p. 51 |
| Exercise 5.1 | p. 52 |
| Pens and Paddocks | p. 53 |
| Groups of Animals in Pens | p. 53 |
| Keeping Records of Individuals | p. 55 |
| Grazing Trials | p. 57 |
| Coefficients of Variation for Groups | p. 59 |
| Summary | p. 60 |
| Exercise 6.1 | p. 60 |
| Factorial Designs | p. 62 |
| Factorial Analyses with No Interactions | p. 63 |
| Factorial Analyses When Interaction Is Present | p. 64 |
| Two for the Price of One | p. 64 |
| Factorial Designs with Unequal Replication (Split Plots) | p. 66 |
| Summary | p. 68 |
| Exercise 7.1 | p. 69 |
| Assumptions Underlying the Analysis of Variance | p. 70 |
| Homogeneity of Variances | p. 70 |
| The Logarithmic Transformation | p. 71 |
| Testing for Homogeneity of Variance | p. 72 |
| Further Examples | p. 73 |
| Other Transformations | p. 73 |
| Additivity | p. 74 |
| Summary | p. 75 |
| Reference | p. 76 |
| Exercise 8.1 | p. 76 |
| Dose-Response Trials | p. 78 |
| Shapes of Response Curves | p. 79 |
| Asymptotic Responses | p. 81 |
| Fitting Straight Lines as a Compromise | p. 83 |
| Simple Curves | p. 86 |
| Exponential and Inverse Polynomial Models | p. 87 |
| The Reading Model | p. 88 |
| Choice of Treatments | p. 90 |
| Response Surfaces | p. 92 |
| Summary | p. 92 |
| References | p. 92 |
| Exercise 9.1 | p. 93 |
| Uses of Covariance Analysis | p. 95 |
| Covariance Adjustment Using Preliminary Variables | p. 96 |
| Multiple Covariance | p. 100 |
| Blocking versus Covariance | p. 101 |
| Covariance Adjustment as an Aid to Interpretation | p. 102 |
| Summary | p. 105 |
| Exercise 10.1 | p. 105 |
| Unbalanced Designs | p. 107 |
| Missing Plots | p. 108 |
| Unbalanced Designs | p. 108 |
| Some Examples | p. 109 |
| Summary | p. 111 |
| Reference | p. 111 |
| Exercise 11.1 | p. 111 |
| Exercise 11.2 | p. 111 |
| Repeated Measures | p. 113 |
| Time Trends | p. 115 |
| Weighing Ruminant Animals | p. 116 |
| Summary | p. 117 |
| Reference | p. 117 |
| Exercise 12.1 | p. 117 |
| Discrete Data | p. 119 |
| Snags with the x[superscript 2] Test | p. 120 |
| Estimating the Expected Outcome | p. 121 |
| Summary | p. 122 |
| Reference | p. 122 |
| Multiple Experiments | p. 123 |
| Planning Multi-location Experiments | p. 123 |
| Reviewing Multiple Experiments | p. 127 |
| Summary | p. 133 |
| References | p. 133 |
| Epilogue | p. 134 |
| Appendix 1 | p. 135 |
| Random Numbers and How to Use Them | p. 135 |
| Appendix 2 | p. 137 |
| Some Useful General Formulae | p. 137 |
| Useful Quick Approximations | p. 137 |
| Differences between Differences | p. 138 |
| Appendix 3 | p. 139 |
| Answers to Exercise 2.1 Using a Pocket Calculator | p. 139 |
| Appendix 4 | p. 141 |
| Answers to Exercise 2.1 Using SAS | p. 141 |
| Appendix 5 | p. 144 |
| Answers to Exercise 2.2 Using a Pocket Calculator | p. 144 |
| Appendix 6 | p. 147 |
| Answers to Exercise 2.2 Using SAS | p. 147 |
| Appendix 7 | p. 148 |
| Separation of Treatment Means | p. 148 |
| Orthogonal Polynomials | p. 149 |
| Orthogonal Polynomials for Regression Analysis | p. 152 |
| Appendix 8 | p. 154 |
| Answers to Exercise 3.1 | p. 154 |
| Answers to Exercise 3.2 | p. 155 |
| Appendix 9 | p. 158 |
| Answer to Exercise 4.1 | p. 158 |
| Answer to Part 1 of Exercise 4.2 | p. 158 |
| Answer to Part 2 of Exercise 4.2 | p. 159 |
| Answer to Exercise 4.3 | p. 160 |
| Appendix 10 | p. 161 |
| Answers to Exercise 5.1 Using a Pocket Calculator | p. 161 |
| Appendix 11 | p. 165 |
| Answers to Exercise 5.1 Using SAS | p. 165 |
| Appendix 12 | p. 167 |
| Example ANOVA of a Balanced Latin Square Design | p. 167 |
| Appendix 13 | p. 171 |
| Answers to Exercise 6.1 | p. 171 |
| Appendix 14 | p. 175 |
| Answers to Exercise 7.1 | p. 175 |
| Appendix 15 | p. 180 |
| Bartlett's Test | p. 180 |
| Appendix 16 | p. 183 |
| Answers to Exercise 8.1 | p. 183 |
| Appendix 17 | p. 185 |
| Answers to Exercise 9.1 | p. 185 |
| Appendix 18 | p. 188 |
| Example of Analysis of Covariance | p. 188 |
| Appendix 19 | p. 191 |
| Answers to Exercise 10.1 | p. 191 |
| Appendix 20 | p. 194 |
| Answers to Exercise 11.1 | p. 194 |
| Appendix 21 | p. 196 |
| Answers to Exercise 11.2 | p. 196 |
| Appendix 22 | p. 197 |
| Answers to Exercise 12.1 | p. 197 |
| Appendix 23 | p. 199 |
| Example of Matrix Used to Fit Constants for Trials | p. 199 |
| Appendix 24 | p. 201 |
| Table of x[superscript 2] | p. 201 |
| Appendix 25 | p. 202 |
| F-ratio Tables | p. 202 |
| Appendix 26 | p. 204 |
| Student's t | p. 204 |
| Index | p. 205 |
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