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  A Blocking Strategy
 
 
Title: A Blocking Strategy
Author: Vithayasai, C.
Robson, D. S.
Appeared in: Communications in statistics
Paging: Volume 3 (1974) nr. 11 pages 1041-1052
Year: 1974
Contents: We suppose that prior to partitioning a set of experimental units into experimental blocks of size t, each unit is classified with respect to k different binary variables or attributes. The 2k cells of this classification are then used as building blocks to form experimental blocks of t homogeneous experimental units. In our attempt to achieve within-block homogeneity we first order the 2k cells in a sequence so that any two adjacent cells differ with respect to exactly one attribute. The contents of each cell are then partitioned into blocks and, where necessary, units from adjacent cells are combined to form blocks. In the case of standardized quantitative variables which have been dichotomized at zero, a within-cell partition is based upon an ordering of the experimental units with respect to that particular quantitative variable which changes its sign in the next cell of the sequence.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Source file: Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
 
 

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