stirret.borers {agridat} | R Documentation |
Corn borer control by application of fungal spores.
A data frame with 60 observations on the following 4 variables.
block
block, 15 levels
trt
treatment, 4 levels
count1
count of borers on August 18
count2
count of borers on October 19
Experiment conducted in 1935, Ottawa. European corn borer infestation was established by application of egg masses to plants. Treatments were applied on July 8 and July 19 at two levels, 0 and 40 grams per acre. The number of borers per plot were counted on Aug 18 and Oct 19.
Stirrett, George M and Beall, Geoffrey and Timonin, M. (1937). A field experiment on the control of the European corn borer, Pyrausta nubilalis Hubn, by Beauveria bassiana Vuill. Sci. Agric., 17, 587–591. Table 2.
data(stirret.borers) dat <- stirret.borers require(lattice) xyplot(count2~count1|trt,dat, main="stirret.borers - by treatment", xlab="Early count of borers", ylab="Late count") # Even though the data are counts, Normal distribution seems okay # qqmath(~count1|trt, dat, main="stirret.borers") m1 <- lm(count1 ~ trt + block, dat) anova(m1) if(require(effects)){ e1 <- effect('trt',m1) as.data.frame(e1) plot(e1, main="stirret.borer") }