Written to meet the needs of both students and applied researchers, Design of Experiments for Agriculture and the Natural Sciences, Second Edition serves as an introductory guide to experimental designs and analysis. Like the popular original, it provides an understanding of the logical underpinnings of design and analysis by selecting and discussing only those designs that offer the greatest utility. However, it improves on the first edition by adhering to a step-by-step process that greatly improves accessibility and understanding. Real problems from different areas of agriculture and science are presented throughout to show how practical issues of design and analysis are best handled. This second edition features a new chapter on covariance analysis to help readers reduce errors, while enhancing their ability to examine covariances among selected variables, it also includes expanded material on multiple regression and variance analysis. An ideal introduction to designing experiments in agriculture, environmental science, and the natural sciences, Design of Experiments for Agriculture and the Natural Sciences, Second Edition-Presents experimental design and analysis using one, two, and three factors, Includes tables in each chapter that assist with data manipulation and computation for every step in a design, Demonstrates the layout of experiments and reinforces concepts with illustrations and figures, Offers a Minitab® guide that can be used to assist with data analysis, While some familiarity with basic statistical fundamentals is required, no previous exposure to analysis of variance is assumed. Numerous workable problems are presented throughout to reinforce the reader's ability to creatively apply the principles and concepts in any given situation. Book jacket.