Cyclic and Computer Generated Designs, Second Edition (Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability)

Cyclic and Computer Generated Designs is a much expanded and updated version of the well-received monograph on Cyclic Designs. The book is primarily concerned with the construction and analysis of designs with a number of different blocking structures, such as resolvable designs, row-column designs and Latinized designs. It describes how appropriate and efficient designs can be constructed through the use of cyclic methods and recently developed computer algorithms. A greater emphasis is now given in this new edition to the construction and properties of resolvable block and row-column designs. A general theory for single, fractional and multiple replicate factorial designs is presented. Cyclic methods are used to construct most of these designs. Some new work on the use of computer algorithms for setting out factorial experiments in row-column designs is described. All the designs discussed can be analysed using the generalized least squares theory given in the book. Two experiments, with analyses, are described in detail. Cyclic and Computer Generated Designs will be of use to graduate students of statistics and to all those statisticians engaged in the design and analysis of experiments in almost any area of application.

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