ABSTRACT
The study covers steps involved in using SPSS and GenStat statistical software to analyze data from agricultural research especially in Animal Science. The objective is to highlight the use of the software in analysis of research data. Emphasis is laid on understanding designs of experiments which will serve as a guide to performing any analysis chosen. The experimental designs used were Completely Randomized Design, Randomized Complete Block Design and Latin Square Design. Some statistical procedures included in the study are ANOVA, paired sample t-test, Pearson Product Moment Correlation and regression analyses. In addition, repeatability estimation following ANOVA was vividly outlined. This study also slightly compared the effectiveness of the two software used. Although SPSS was used in most of the analyses, its weakness compared to GenStat in areas like standard error (SE) of mean and ANOVA for repeatability estimation was shown. |
