BLOCK DESIGNS: ANALYSIS, COMBINATORICS AND APPLICATIONS (Applied Mathematics) - Hardcover

Raghavarao, Damaraju; Padgett, Lakshmi V

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9812563601 ISBN 13: 9789812563606

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2005

Synopsis

Combinatorial mathematicians and statisticians have made a wide range of contributions to the development of block designs, and this book brings together much of that work. The designs developed for a specific problem are used in a variety of different settings. Applications include controlled sampling, randomized response, validation and valuation studies, intercropping experiments, brand cross-effect designs, lotto and tournaments.The intra- and inter- block, nonparametric and covariance analysis are discussed for general block designs, and the concepts of connectedness, orthogonality, and all types of balances in designs are carefully summarized. Readers are also introduced to the designs currently playing a prominent role in the field: alpha designs, trend-free designs, balanced treatment-control designs, nearest neighbor designs, and nested designs.This book provides the important background results required by researchers in block designs and related areas and prepares them for more complex research on the subject.

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"This monograph is interesting and will be useful to both statisticians and combinatorial mathematicians.?

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9812563601
• ISBN 13: 9789812563606
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224