lehner.soybeanmold: Yield, white mold, and sclerotia for soybeans in Brazil

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Yield, white mold, and sclerotia for soybeans in Brazil

Description

Yield, white mold, and sclerotia for soybeans in Brazil

Usage

data("lehner.soybeanmold")

Format

A data frame with 382 observations on the following 9 variables.

study

study number

year

year of harvest

loc

location name

elev

elevation

region

region

trt

treatment number

yield

crop yield, kg/ha

mold

white mold incidence, percent

sclerotia

weight of sclerotia g/ha

Details

Data are the mean of 4 reps.

Original source (Portuguese) https://ainfo.cnptia.embrapa.br/digital/bitstream/item/101371/1/Ensaios-cooperativos-de-controle-quimico-de-mofo-branco-na-cultura-da-soja-safras-2009-a-2012.pdf

Data included here via GPL3 license.

Source

Lehner, M. S., Pethybridge, S. J., Meyer, M. C., & Del Ponte, E. M. (2016). Meta-analytic modelling of the incidence-yield and incidence-sclerotial production relationships in soybean white mould epidemics. Plant Pathology. doi:10.1111/ppa.12590

References

Full commented code and analysis https://emdelponte.github.io/paper-white-mold-meta-analysis/

Examples

## Not run: 

library(agridat)
data(lehner.soybeanmold)
dat <- lehner.soybeanmold

if(0){
  op <- par(mfrow=c(2,2))
  hist(dat$mold, main="White mold incidence")
  hist(dat$yield, main="Yield")
  hist(dat$sclerotia, main="Sclerotia weight")
  par(op)
}

libs(lattice)
xyplot(yield ~ mold|study, dat, type=c('p','r'),
       main="lehner.soybeanmold")
# xyplot(sclerotia ~ mold|study, dat, type=c('p','r'))

# meta-analysis. Could use metafor package to construct the forest plot,
# but latticeExtra is easy; ggplot is slow/clumsy
libs(latticeExtra, metafor)
# calculate correlation & confidence for each loc
cors <- split(dat, dat$study)
cors <- sapply(cors,
               FUN=function(X){
                 res <- cor.test(X$yield, X$mold)
                 c(res$estimate, res$parameter[1],
                   conf.low=res$conf.int[1], conf.high=res$conf.int[2])
               })
cors <- as.data.frame(t(as.matrix(cors)))
cors$study <- rownames(cors)
# Fisher Z transform
cors <- transform(cors, ri = cor)
cors <- transform(cors, ni = df + 2)
cors <- transform(cors,
                  yi = 1/2 * log((1 + ri)/(1 - ri)),
                  vi = 1/(ni - 3))
# Overall correlation across studies
overall <- rma.uni(yi, vi, method="ML", data=cors) # metafor package
# back transform
overall <- predict(overall, transf=transf.ztor)

# weight and size for forest plot
wi    <- 1/sqrt(cors$vi)
size  <- 0.5 + 3.0 * (wi - min(wi))/(max(wi) - min(wi))

# now the forest plot
# must use latticeExtra::layer in case ggplot2 is also loaded
segplot(factor(study) ~ conf.low+conf.high, data=cors,
        draw.bands=FALSE, level=size, centers=ri, cex=size,
        col.regions=colorRampPalette(c("gray85", "dodgerblue4")),
        main="White mold vs. soybean yield",
        xlab=paste("Study correlation, confidence, and study weight (blues)\n",
                   "Overall (black)"),
        ylab="Study ID") +
  latticeExtra::layer(panel.abline(v=overall$pred, lwd=2)) +
  latticeExtra::layer(panel.abline(v=c(overall$cr.lb, overall$cr.ub), lty=2, col="gray"))


# Meta-analyses are typically used when the original data is not available.
# Since the original data is available, a mixed model is probably better.
libs(lme4)
m1 <- lmer(yield ~ mold # overall slope
           + (1+mold |study), # random intercept & slope per study
           data=dat)
summary(m1)


## End(Not run)

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