Abstract
The Coconut Research Institute in Sri Lanka (CRI) began using microcomputersfor the analysis of their experimental data in 1986. Four case studies of typical sets of fieldexperimental data from the CRI are used to illustrate the potential benefits and possibleproblems in moving from a manual system of data processing to one which uses a powerfulstatistical package.doi: 10.4038/cocos.v6i1.2054COCOS 1988 Vol.6 No.1 38-52
Highlights
The Coconut Research Institute of Sri Lanka (CRI) acquired microcomputers in 1986 for data processing and analysis
The Biometry Unit at the CRI is the oldest biometry facility in the research institutes in Sri Lanka, and its responsibility is to provide a statistical service to the other research divisions
The analysis described in this example is an analysis of cpnvariance with the yield of the final year as the variable and the yield in the one year before the treatments as a covariate
Summary
The Coconut Research Institute of Sri Lanka (CRI) acquired microcomputers in 1986 for data processing and analysis. Other agricultural research institutes in Sri Lanka are currently acquiring microcomputers and all have a joint licence to use the statistical package SYSTEM ANALYSIS SOFTWARE (SAS). The structure of the CRI, collection of data from field experiments and their analyses are briefly described. In the final section of the paper we consider briefly other ways in which the computer could help in data processing. Many agricultural research institutes conduct experiments for more than one year This is taken to extremes with a crop like coconut where palm yields are taken six times a year for trees which yield for over 60 years. The entry and management of such long term data are a formidable task which could involve other software in addition to a statistical package
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