ÓPTIMOS ANALÍTICOS Y ECONÓMICOS DE MODELOS APLICADOS EN EXPERIMENTACIÓN AGRÍCOLA* OPTIMAL ANALYTICAL AND ECONOMIC OF MODELS APPLIED IN AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTATION

Abstract

In research on crop fertilization it is frequent the application of pseudocuadratic models as a response surface approach. However, the determination of analytic and economic optimum yields may present difficulties, particularly when the corresponding values lie out of the exploration range, when a saddle point is obtained or when is impossible to reach an analytic solution for the equation. To obtain the economic optimums in a pseudocuadratic model, the use of numerical calculation methods and a statistic computer system, is required. The objectives of this work were: to present a procedure for calculating the analytical and economic optimum yields on a pseudocuadratic general model with one and two factors and to test it with real experimental data. The model was developed at the Unidad