Communications in Biometry and Crop Science

Communications
in Biometry and Crop Science

 

 

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NOTE
Note on modern path analysis in application to crop science

Marcin Kozak, Manjit S. Kang


Communications in Biometry and Crop Science (2006) 1 (1), 32-34.
 

ABSTRACT
In this note, we discuss path analysis and its applications to crop science investigations – almost all of these applications are based on the methodology that Sewall Wright developed in the 1920s, although the path analysis method has been intensively developed during the last three decades. Via this paper, we point out that new methodology of estimation and testing in path analysis is fairly advanced and is applied in many biological disciplines and that it should also be extended to crop science.
 

Key Words: causality; maximum likelihood; estimation; testing.