Bhartiya Krishi Anusandhan Patrika, volume 33 issue 3 (september 2018) : 181-184

Experiments with mixtures

Sukanta Dash, Anil Kumar, B.N. Mandal, Krishan Lal, Devender Kumar
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Cite article:- Dash Sukanta, Kumar Anil, Mandal B.N., Lal Krishan, Kumar Devender (NaN). Experiments with mixtures . Bhartiya Krishi Anusandhan Patrika. 33(3): 181-184. doi: 10.18805/BKAP112.

    The designs for mixture experiments have been extensively used in agricultural/ industrial experiments. Some of the situations in which these designs could be advantageously used are: split application of fertilizers, intercropping experiments where the interest of experimenter is to find best crop mixtures, sensory evaluation experiments for making the agricultural and animal products, preparation of fertilizers, insecticides/ pesticides mixtures for optimum response, feeding trials in animal nutritional experiments. Mixture experiments can be used in with unrestricted region, with restricted region having upper and/or lower bounds, with process variable(s). 


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