MTA for FieldPro
Key Benefits:
Summary across
Paired Trials or Unpaired trials...
Wide range of summary
filters including treatment, soil type, OM, etc...
The FieldPro MTA (Multi-Trial Analysis) is a software program
which summarizes multiple FieldPro trials. Trials may be selected from
one or more FieldPro databases and imported into an MTA database. Once
trials have been imported into MTA they can easily be edited and analyzed.
The powerful editing features of the MTA make it possible to change the
appearance of data (i.e. change header specie codes to user defined names)
so that custom summaries can be produced. Reports can then be output to
the screen, printer, or downloaded to an ASCII file or Excel spreadsheet
so that the data can be used for wider audiences and uses beyond protocol
technical summaries.
MTA features:
Import data from
any FieldPro trial or MTA database.
Create summaries
of field trials over multiple locations and/or years.
Perform summaries
of trials containing only selected paired treatments.
Edit data from
various sources and geographic locals to create a single homogeneous
database.
Create and manage
multiple MTA data folders so that information can easily be joined and
stored in many combinations of trials.
Filter data to
make comparisons based on combinations of key trial factors such as
specie, rainfall, Soil pH, CEC, % Soil Organic Matter, etc.
Edit and combine
headers, chemicals, rates, rate units, timings and full treatments.
Merge multiple
trial headers and treatments into a single combined treatment listing.
Output summary
information to printer, screen, file or Excel spreadsheet format.
Using MTA
MTA uses a complete Windows interface. After you log onto MTA a Windows
menu bar is displayed at the top of the screen. This is the Main Menu,
and options are selected in the same way as other Windows programs like
Word and Excel: by clicking on them with the left mouse button, pressing
the ENTER key on the menu option, or by pressing the underlined hot-key
for the menu option. You may use the TAB/SHIFT-TAB keys to move through
the menu choices. Many of the menu choices lead to Windows dialog boxes.
For example, to select which crops to include in a summary, the MTA Mover
Dialog opens.
You select crops by moving them from one side of the dialog to the other.
When you click the OK button, the operation is carried out and you are
returned to the Main Menu. As with all Windows programs, the MTA window
may be maximized, minimized, and resized. The main window and smaller
windows like dialogs may be moved around the screen by dragging the blue
title bar. Other programs may be running at the same time as MTA if your
system has enough memory to accommodate them.
MTA filter settings
A filter sorts data into two streams: one which will be used in summaries,
one which will not. For example, if an MTA database contains data from
IL, IA, IN, and MI, setting the States filter to IL and IA would exclude
data from IN and MI in the summary. When you output a report, only the
data that corresponds to all of the filter settings will be included.
Setting different filters and filter combinations allows you to answer
questions such as the following:
Set filters by clicking the appropriate button and selecting items with
the dialog windows which open. All of the categories use the standard
MTA mover dialog to select items, with the exception of the < Treatments
> and < Paired Treatments > options.
The filter buttons turn colors depending on what is selected. A Green
button indicates that all available items for that category are selected.
Yellow indicates that some items are selected, and Red indicates that
no items are selected. Items which may be filtered are Trials, Researcher,
Headers, Treatments, Crops, Countries, State/Province, Soil OM, Soil pH,
Soil CEC, Soil Texture, Early Season Rainfall, Mid Season Rainfall, Late
Season Rainfall, and Paired Treatments.
The Trials Matching Current Filter Settings box at the lower left-hand
corner of the Set MTA Filters dialog displays the list of trials which
match all of the current filter settings. This is the best indicator of
how much data will be included in reports. If filters are set for several
parameters such as treatments, headers, soil OM, etc. there may be few
trials which match all of the filter settings. If the Trials Matching
Current Filter Settings number is low or zero, you will probably want
to expand filtering to broaden summary before you output summary report.
System Requirements:
MTA will run on any computer that is currently running Windows 95/98/XP/ME/NT
and FieldPro. Since MTA uses the FoxPro system that is already installed
for FieldPro, it takes very little hard disk space to install the MTA
system. Currently, MTA takes about two megabytes of hard disk space. The
size of the databases you create are totally dependent on the number and
size of trials imported into them. We recommend keeping databases as small
as possible in order to do a particular summary. Databases can be as large
or small as you wish. Our test has included databases with up to 5,500
individual trials.
Pricing
$2,500.00 US or Call for a price quote based on number of users.