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Transect

The following documents require Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel.

Microsoft Word DocumentGrand Means Workbook Instructions (30 KB)
A user's guide to help you use this transect analysis program that runs in Excel software to calculate simple statistics and plot your transect or random point data.

 Microsoft Excel SpreadsheetGrand Means for Observed Properties.xls (390 KB)
 Transect analysis program runs in Excel software to calculate simple statistics and plot your transect or random point data for selected soil properties. Calculations include a range and mean for each delineation and grand means with confidence limits for the map unit. Range, Variance, and Standard Error are also displayed for the map unit.

Microsoft Word DocumentSimilar-Dissimilar (48KB)
The current model in use in MO14 for making decisions about similar and dissimilar soil components.

Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Treference.xls (57 KB)
The storehouse for components and their assigned soil property values from the similar dissimilar model. The tsummary.xls file links to this file for purposes of composition decisions based on whether components are similar or dissimilar major components.

Microsoft Excel SpreadsheetTsummary.xls (251 KB)
The Excel worksheets for entering component extents from transects and for deciding map unit composition based on our similar dissimilar model.