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Developing System For Auditing The Database Of Agricultural Trial, Olga Susana Filippini De Delfino, Ana Aguua, Hugo Delfino

Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture

Many steps are involved in getting data from an experimental unit of an agricultural trial into a final report. Each step may introduce a great variety of errors. Building quality into systems is much more productive than building checks onto the end. Poor quality database have effects on final study results in terms of estimation, significance testing and power; but auditing agricultural trial is a complex process designed to ensure that it will provide a reliable answer to the question being posed. By introducing digit errors into database in a tomato assay, with small sample size, we demonstrate that simple …