Statistical applications

Relevant Publications

In review. G. L. Gadbury, K. A. Garrett, and D. B. Allison. Challenges and approaches to statistical design and inference in high dimensional investigations.

In review. K. A. Garrett, S. E. Travers, G. A. Milliken, J. Bai, S. H. Hulbert, J. E. Leach, P. S. Schnable, A. Saleh, J. L. Roe, P. A. Fay, A. K. Knapp, Z. Tang, and M. D. Smith. Gene expression in the wild: Analyzing genome-wide expression in field experiments with natural populations.

K. A. Garrett, P. D. Esker, and A. H. Sparks. 2007. An introduction to the R programming environment. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2007-1226-02.
Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc0

A. H. Sparks, P. D. Esker, M. Bates, W. Dall'Acqua, Z. Guo, V. Segovia, S. D. Silwal, S. Tolos, and K. A. Garrett. 2008. Ecology and epidemiology in R: Disease progress over time. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2008-0129-02. Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc1

P. D. Esker, A. H. Sparks, G. Antony, M. Bates, W. Dall'Acqua, E. E. Frank, L. Huebel, V. Segovia, and K. A. Garrett. 2007. Ecology and epidemiology in R: Modeling dispersal gradients. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2007-1226-03. Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc2

A. H. Sparks, P. D. Esker, G. Antony, L. Campbell, E. E. Frank, L. Huebel, M. N. Rouse, B. Van Allen, and K. A. Garrett. 2008. Ecology and epidemiology in R: Spatial pattern analysis. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2008-0129-03. Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc3

P. D. Esker, A. H. Sparks, L. Campbell, Z. Guo, M. N. Rouse, S. D. Silwal, S. Tolos, B. Van Allen, and K. A. Garrett. 2008. Ecology and epidemiology in R: Disease forecasting and validation. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2008-0129-01. Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc4

W. W. Bockus, Z. Su, K. A. Garrett, B. S. Gill, J. P. Stack, R. L. Bowden, A. K. Fritz, K. L. Roozeboom, and T. J. Martin. 2007. Number of experiments needed to determine wheat disease phenotypes for four wheat diseases. Plant Disease 91:103-108. [PDF]

G. A. Milliken, K. A. Garrett, and S. E. Travers. 2007. Experimental design for two-color microarrays applied in a pre-existing split-plot experiment. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 6, Article 20. Available at http://www.bepress.com/sagmb/vol6/iss1/art20 [PDF]

S. E. Travers, M. D. Smith, J. Bai, S. H. Hulbert, J. E. Leach, P. S. Schnable, A. K. Knapp, G. Milliken, P. Fay, A. Saleh, and K. A. Garrett. 2007. Ecological genomics: making the leap from model systems in the lab to native populations in the field. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5:19-24. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett, M. Kabbage, and W. W. Bockus. 2004. Managing for fine-scale differences in inoculum load: Seeding patterns to minimize loss to wheat take-all. Precision Agriculture 5:291-301. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett, L. V. Madden, G. Hughes, and W. F. Pfender. 2004. New applications of statistical tools in plant pathology. Phytopathology 94:999-1003. [PDF]

M. S. Rosenberg, K. A. Garrett, Z. Su, and R. L. Bowden. 2004. Meta-analysis in plant pathology: Methods for research synthesis. Phytopathology 94:1013-1017. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett and C. C. Mundt. 2000. Effects of planting density and the composition of wheat cultivar mixture on stripe rust: An analysis taking into account limits to the replication of controls. Phytopathology 90:1313-1321. [PDF]

R. J. Hijmans, K. A. Garrett, Z. Huamán, D. P. Zhang, M. Schreuder, and M. Bonierbale. 2000. Assessing the geographic representativeness of germplasm collections: the case of the Bolivian wild potato genebank. Conservation Biology 14:1755-1765. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett. 1997. Use of statistical tests of equivalence (bioequivalence tests) in plant pathology. Phytopathology 87:372-374. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett. 1995. Selecting a method for sampling weed densities: The case of weed removal in strips. Weed Science 43:394-401.

P. M. Dixon and K. A. Garrett. 1994. Statistical Issues for Field Experimenters. Pages 439-450 in Wildlife Toxicology and Population Modeling: Integrated Studies of Agroecosystems. R. J. Kendall and T. E. Lacher, Jr., editors. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton.

P. M. Dixon and K. A. Garrett. 1993. Sampling ecological information: Choice of sample size, reconsidered. Ecological Modelling 68:67-73.

Kansas State University

Department of Plant Pathology

Ecological Genomics Institute

PI: Karen A. Garrett