GRADUATE STUDENTS: What classes are you taking this Spring?
Consider AGRO896, Section 795 Field Research: Design, Data Management, Analysis and Reporting. This short, seven-week, applied course is designed to provide graduate students with practical knowledge of current methodologies used for designing efficient agricultural field experiments, and for subsequent data management, analysis, summarization and reporting from such experiments.
Based on Blaine Johnson and Amanda Easterly’s experiences in academia and industry, this course will provide the confidence to:
- design experiments that fit the research question without relying on traditional textbook designs;
- efficiently manage data and metadata to establish good data management practices;
- evaluate multi-environment, multi-year experiments and those with multiple treatment levels;
- account for unbalanced data, whether planned or unplanned;
- understand the advantages, differences, and implications between predicted and expected values (BLUPs versus BLUEs), fixed and random effects;
- leverage software options such as ASReml, Echidna, and MS Access in real-world examples, and
- report results in meaningful ways to different audiences.
Approval from the instructors is required for registration and must be made prior to the start of the spring term on Jan. 22. Contact instructor Blaine Johnson, at blaine.e.johnson@unl.edu, or Amanda Easterly, at aeasterly2@unl.edu.
REGISTER at https://myred.nebraska.edu.
More details at: https://myred.nebraska.edu