The present book is the outcome of the research work carried out by the
main author during Post-graduate studies under the advisement of the
Co-author and a little effort to acquaint the agriculture scientists
with the method of analyzing data when a number of responses are
measured simultaneously for each set of a group of input variables. In
the present book, RSM is used to find the optimum doses of nitrogen (N),
phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) so that the yield of French Bean
(Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is maximum. An appropriate multiresponse model
has been fitted for the data related to the growth of French bean
(Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and tests of linear dependencies among responses
and lack of fit of the multiresponse model have been performed. The four
response variables considered for the study are plant height (cm),
number of leaves per plant, number of green pods per plant, total yield
of green pods (kg/ha). Finally, the optimum operating conditions which
optimize the multiresponse objective function have been obtained by
converting the problem into Linear Programming Problem (LPP).