pbbd {pbbd}

Position balanced and nearly position balanced block design

Description

This function generates a position balanced or nearly position balanced block design with given parameters. User needs to specify number of treatments (v), number of blocks (b) and block size (k)

Usage

pbbd(v, b, k)

Arguments

v

Number of treatments

b

Number of blocks

k

Block size

Value

parameters

Parameters v,b,r,k. Here r is number of replications of each treatment

efficiencies

A- and D-efficiency of the design generated

design

Position balanced block design

P

Treatment verus position incidence matrix

Note

This function works for generating a position balanced block design for upto 30 treatments and block size 10. For getting design with larger number of treatments and/or block size, it is better to use balancify() function with a design supplied by user to make the design position balanced.

Author(s)

B N Mandal <[e-mail]>

Examples

pbbd(7,7,3)

pbbd(9,12,3)