biotools-package: Tools for Biometry and Applied Statistics in Agricultural Science
Description
This package contains tools designed to perform and work with cluster analysis,
discriminant analysis and path analysis (standard and with collinearity), as well as
some useful miscellaneous tools for dealing with sample size and optimum plot size calculations.Details
ll{
Package: biotools
Type: Package
Version: 1.2
Date: 2014-05-25
License: GPL (>= 2)
}References
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