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A good understanding of the design of an experiment and the observational data that have been collected as part of the experiment is a key pre-requisite for correct and meaningful preparation of field data for further analysis. In this chapter, I provide a guideline of how an understanding of the field data can be gained, preparation steps that arise as a consequence of the experimental or data structure, and how to fit a linear model to extract data for further analysis.
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Dominik, S. (2013). Descriptive Statistics of Data: Understanding the Data Set and Phenotypes of Interest. In: Gondro, C., van der Werf, J., Hayes, B. (eds) Genome-Wide Association Studies and Genomic Prediction. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1019. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-447-0_2
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