Robustness of balanced incomplete block designs to randomly missing observations

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 92, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 283-296

  Prescott, Philip ^a   Mansson, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Balanced incomplete block design; Eigenvalues; Information matrix; Missing observations; Variance of treatment differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001534935     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(00)00147-6     Document Type: Article

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