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Some Design Problems in Crop Experimentation. II. Multiple Blocking Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

S. C. Pearce
S. C. Pearce
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ASRU Ltd, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NF, England
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This paper describes the construction, usefulness and randomization of several designs for field experiments in which there is more than one set of blocks, namely: (a) row-and-column designs, in which there are two crossing sets of blocks, treatments being applied to the plots formed by their intersections; (b) row-and-column designs in which factors are applied to complete rows or complete columns, that is, criss-cross (or strip-plot) designs; and (c) split-plot designs, in which the plots in a study of one factor are used as blocks in the study of another. All are examples of a wider class of designs, with many ramifications, said to have ‘simple block structure’. It is suggested here that some of the assumptions underlying row-and-column designs are questionable. Some alternative approaches are indicated.

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Experimental Agriculture , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , July 1995 , pp. 279 - 290
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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