Sisvar: a computer analysis system to fixed effects split plot type designs

Abstract

This paper presents a special capability of Sisvar to deal with fixed effect models with several restriction in the randomization procedure. These restrictions lead to models with fixed treatment effects, but with several random errors. One way do deal with models of this kind is to perform a mixed model analysis, considering only the error effects in the model as random effects and with different covariance structure for the error terms. Another way is to perform a analysis of variance with several error. These kind of analysis, when the data are balanced, can be done by using Sisvar. The software lead a exact F test for the fixed effects and allow the user to applied multiple comparison procedures or regression analysis for the levels of the fixed effect factors, regarding they are single effects, interaction effects or hierarchical effects. Sisvar is an interesting statistical computer system for using in balanced agricultural and industrial data sets.