Winning the Accuracy Game
By Hugh G. Gauch
Three statistical strategies—replicating, blocking and modeling—can help scientists improve accuracy and accelerate progress
This Article From Issue
March-April 2006
Volume 94, Number 2
Page 133
DOI: 10.1511/2006.58.133
Thomas Edison famously stated that genius is "one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." In crop science, as in many other fields of research, investigators find much truth in this proverb. The discovery of an improved variety of corn, wheat or soybeans is very much a numbers game.
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