“…Studies in several vegetables have shown that harvest clustering reduces the variability between plants, decreasing data dispersion, and mitigating the negative effect of excess zeros in the database (Carpes et al, 2008(Carpes et al, , 2010Lúcio et al, 2011Lúcio et al, , 2016Santos et al, 2012Santos et al, a,b, 2014Benz et al, 2015;Lúcio & Benz, 2017). However, even with harvest clustering, variability may go on increasing, as the cumulative value of harvest "n" remains the same as that observed in harvest "n-1", when there are no products to be harvested in a plant, while in another, in which there are harvestable products, the value increases.…”