Package: BKVerify 0.1.1

BKVerify: Consistency Auditing of Reported Plant Breeding Statistics

Audits published or draft plant breeding tables for internal arithmetic consistency. Analysis of variance tables, precision statistics and genetic variability parameters are jointly over-determined by exact algebraic identities; 'BKVerify' recomputes every derivable quantity using rounding-interval arithmetic and reports a value as inconsistent only when no combination of values inside the reported rounding intervals can satisfy the identity. The package deliberately restricts itself to relationships that hold irrespective of which variance-component definition an author adopted, so that flagged results reflect arithmetic inconsistency rather than methodological disagreement. Implemented checks cover analysis of variance internal structure, coefficient of variation, standard error of mean and critical difference, the genetic advance identity of Johnson, Robinson and Comstock (1955) <doi:10.2134/agronj1955.00021962004700070009x>, the relation between genotypic and phenotypic coefficients of variation and broad-sense heritability, and admissibility of reported correlation matrices.

Authors:Praveen Kumar [aut, cre]