COURSE CODE: PCP 501
COURSE TITLE: METHODS OF FIELD EXPERIMENTATION
NUMBER OF UNITS: 2 UNITS
COURSE DURATION: Three hours per week
COURSE DETAILS:
Course Coordinator: Prof. Victor Idowu Olugbemiga Olowe MSc., PhD
Email: owebaba@yahoo.com
Office Location: IFSERAR office, Research & Extension building
Other Lecturers: Prof. P.O. Adetiloye/ Prof D.K. Ojo
COURSE SYNOPSIS:
Logic, scientific methods, deductive and inductive reasoning. Essential steps in experimentation: definition of problem, objectives, treatments, experimental material selection. Guides in outlining a proposal on applied research project. Title, problem definition, objectives, materials and methods, plot layout diagram, work schedule, data sheet, yield sample diagram, log frame. Sources of variation in field experimentation. Experimental designs: Completely randomized, randomized complete block, latin square, split plots, single and factorial experiments. Analysis of variance from such designs. Data interpretation and conclusions based on the F-test on data analyzed. Mean and standard deviations, standard error, Least significant difference, Duncan’s Multiple range test. Correlation and Regression. Non-parametric statistics and their application: Chi-square, normal curves and T-test. Writing reports of experiments (project report and journal articles)
Practicals: Visit to selected farms and cropping system experiments. Identification of different cropping patterns.
