agricolae (version 1.0-1)

LSD: Multiple comparisons "Least significant difference" LSD

Description

Multiple comparisons of treatments by means of LSD. The level of meaning for the comparison by default is 0.05

Usage

LSD(y, trt, df, MSerror, alpha = 0.05, main = NULL)

Arguments

y

Answer of the experimental unit

trt

Treatment applied to each experimental unit

df

Degrees of freedom of the experimental error

MSerror

Means square error of the experimental

alpha

Level of risk for the test

main

title of the study

Value

• The meaning is given by * for the level alpha.
• y
  Numeric
• trt
  alfanumeric
• df
  Numeric
• MSerror
  Numeric
• alpha
  Numeric
• main
  Numeric

Details

For equal or different repetition.

References

Steel, R.; Torri,J; Dickey, D.(1997) Principles and Procedures of Statistics A Biometrical Approach. pp178.

See Also

LSD.group, HSD, waller

Examples

library(agricolae)
data(sweetpotato)
attach(sweetpotato)
model<-aov(yield~virus)
df<-df.residual(model)
MSerror<-deviance(model)/df
comparison<- LSD(yield,virus,df,MSerror,alpha=0.05,main="Yield of sweetpotato")