WATER SORPTION CHARACTERISTICS OF ARGENTINE WHEAT - STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY

The aim of this paper is to establish similarities or differences betw een water sorption characteristics of the most important Argentine whe at varieties and to propose a statistical methodology for their compar ison. Ten varieties of wheat were studied by an isopiestic method at 2 5-degrees-C. A balanced two-way analysis of variance with interactions was used The usual F-tests, assuming normality of the errors, and fre e-distribution tests were carried out. For the latter test specific so ftware was developed. Transformations were eventually made in order to verify the underlying assumptions of the model. This methodology allo ws the grouping of 10 varieties according to nonsignificant difference s.