Collected Disease Data and Weather Data

rmed0571 — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 15:25:54 GMT

Hello All, I am attempting to run collected disease data (Area under the disease progress curve, AUDPC - by variety and pathogen) and temperature data collected for the average temperature in the room each day as the experiment was run. This is important because we have seen a bit of variation in the room where the trial was stored and due to the pathogen preferences, we are concerned that may have skewed the data. (Additional: The sets of apples were run at different times so the daily avg. the temperature will be different depending on when the trial was run. I could average it for the entire trial and just use a single value but I am also unsure of it that would be acceptable in the SAS code. Can I combine the two sheets with "date" as a factor?

I have never analyzed this and am unsure of where to start.

Here is an example of the data:

Disease Data

Variety	Treatment/Pathogen	Rep	AUDPC
Apple 1	1	1	277
Apple 1	1	2	265
Apple 1	1	3	316
Apple 1	1	4	246
Apple 1	3	1	591
Apple 1	3	2	503
Apple 1	3	3	554
Apple 1	3	4	460
Apple 1	4	1	388
Apple 1	4	2	498
Apple 1	4	3	484
Apple 1	4	4	430

Temperature Data:

Date	Avg	High	Low
9/23/2019	70.26567	71.8	69.1
9/24/2019	69.3425	70.4	68.2
9/25/2019	68.89967	70.4	67.3
9/26/2019	69.88596	70.3	69.2
9/27/2019	68.89208	70.1	67.7
9/28/2019	68.85629	69.7	68.5
9/29/2019	68.39888	68.5	68.2
9/30/2019	69.09233	70.8	68
10/1/2019	71.58325	72.3	70.9
10/2/2019	70.81654	71.6	70.48
10/3/2019	71.42663	73.4	69.7
10/4/2019	70.48013	71.6	68.9

Any thoughts on which test might be most appropriate to compare these two groups.

Thank you so much for your help!

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Collected Disease Data and Weather Data