Format
A data frame with 48 observations on the following 14 variables. There are 3 factors and 9 response variables.
Group
- a factor with 12 levels, corresponding to the combinations of
Contour
and Depth
Contour
- a factor with 3 levels:
Depression
Slope
Top
Depth
- a factor with 4 levels:
0-10
10-30
30-60
60-90
Gp
- a factor with 12 levels, giving abbreviations for the groups:
D0
D1
D3
D6
S0
S1
S3
S6
T0
T1
T3
T6
Block
- a factor with levels
1
2
3
4
pH
- soil pH
N
- total nitrogen in %
Dens
- bulk density in gm/cm$^3$
P
- total phosphorous in ppm
Ca
- calcium in me/100 gm.
Mg
- magnesium in me/100 gm.
K
- phosphorous in me/100 gm.
Na
- sodium in me/100 gm.
Conduc
- conductivity
Source
Horton, I. F.,Russell, J. S., and Moore, A. W. (1968)
Multivariate-covariance and canonical analysis:
A method for selecting the most effective discriminators in a multivariate situation.
Biometrics 24, 845--858.
Originally from http://www.stat.lsu.edu/faculty/moser/exst7037/soils.sas but no longer available there.