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Chapter 15, Problem 30SE
The given data on phosphorus concentration in topsoil for four different soil treatments appeared in the article “Fertilisers for Lotus and Clover Establishment on a Sequence of Acid Soils on the East Otago Uplands” (N. Zeal. J. of Exptl. Ag., 1984: 119-129). Use a distribution-free procedure to test the null hypothesis of no difference in true mean phosphorus concentration (mg/g) for the four soil treatments.
| Treatment | I | 8.1 | 5.9 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 |
| II | 11.5 | 10.9 | 12.1 | 10.3 | 11.9 | |
| III | 15.3 | 17.4 | 16.4 | 15.8 | 16.0 | |
| IV | 23.0 | 33.0 | 28.4 | 24.6 | 27.7 |
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