ENBIS: European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics

A combinatorial construction method for strip-plot designs based on balanced incomplete block designs

21 September 2009, 15:45 – 16:05

Abstract

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heidi arnouts

Authors

Heidi Arnouts Peter Goos Eric Schoen

Abstract

Strip-plot designs originated in agricultural experimentation and involved a simple full factorial treatment design. More recently, they have also been considered as an economically interesting design option for industrial experiments performed on two-stage processes. In the literature several combinatorial construction methods are presented where the number of observations is a power of two (Miller, 1997; Vivacqua and Bisgaard, 2009). In this contribution, we relax this constraint by using a combinatorial construction method that is based on balanced incomplete block designs. This method also allows for the construction of strip-plot designs for main-effects models where the number of observations is not necessarily a power of two.

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