Contemporary statistical models for the plant and soil sciences

Statistical Models Mathematical and Statistical Models Functional Aspects of Models The Inferential Steps o Estimation and Testing t-Tests in Terms of Statistical Models Embedding Hypotheses Hypothesis and Significance Testing o Interpretation of the p-Value Classes of Statistical Models Data Structures Introduction Classification by Response Type Classification by Study Type Clustered Data Autocorrelated Data From Independent to Spatial Data o A Progression of Clustering Linear Algebra Tools Introduction Matrices and Vectors Basic Matrix Operations Matrix Inversion o Regular and Generalized Inverse Mean, Variance, and Covariance of Random Vectors The Trace and Expectation of Quadratic Forms The Multivariate…