I do not know which statistics to use - t-test? one way anova? what? (Sep/29/2010 )
Hello Friends,
I have got data from field trials with jatropha: planting with amendment and the control (without amendment).
I mesure the height of each of the 20 plants every week for 4 months. With which statistical test could i compare these heights: plant height from the control plot and plot heiht from the treatment plot.
Could anyone here help me ?
Thanks in advance
Tene
It sounds like you have some normally distibuted samples there (height), but it would pay to test whether it is normally distributed before doing statistics on the samples. Either use Student's t-test (for normally distributed samples) or a non-parametric test such as Mann-Whitney test for non-normally distributed samples to compare individual week's growth. To compare growth overall you may need to use an ANOVA or a Kruskal Wallace test.
Hopefully you used a (generalised) randomised block design....
Hi Bob, Thanks
One of my colleague told me that the T-test in my case is not recommendable because the variables are not independent. he said the Height of a plant this week depend on the height of the same plant last week and so on...What do you think?
Ok a will try what you said. Thanks
bob1 on Thu Sep 30 00:15:43 2010 said:
It sounds like you have some normally distibuted samples there (height), but it would pay to test whether it is normally distributed before doing statistics on the samples. Either use Student's t-test (for normally distributed samples) or a non-parametric test such as Mann-Whitney test for non-normally distributed samples to compare individual week's growth. To compare growth overall you may need to use an ANOVA or a Kruskal Wallace test.
Hi,
No i did not use the RBD because the surface was uniform..
Each plant is consider in this case as a replicate... Any idea how one could handle such a data? Thanks for your comments
hobglobin on Thu Sep 30 06:35:40 2010 said:
Hopefully you used a (generalised) randomised block design....
Tene on Thu Sep 30 09:34:15 2010 said:
Hi,
No i did not use the RBD because the surface was uniform..
Each plant is consider in this case as a replicate... Any idea how one could handle such a data? Thanks for your comments
Light intensity and direction and surroundings (other plants) are also the same then?
Anyway a Repeated Measures ANOVA should do the job, if the data conform more or less with the assumptions for ANOVA. A Friedman test is the non-parametric alternative.
Thanks my dear.
Regards
hobglobin on Thu Sep 30 11:31:26 2010 said:
Tene on Thu Sep 30 09:34:15 2010 said:
Hi,
No i did not use the RBD because the surface was uniform..
Each plant is consider in this case as a replicate... Any idea how one could handle such a data? Thanks for your comments
Light intensity and direction and surroundings (other plants) are also the same then?
Anyway a Repeated Measures ANOVA should do the job, if the data conform more or less with the assumptions for ANOVA. A Friedman test is the non-parametric alternative.