ibd (version 1.2)

btib: balanced treatment incomplete block design

Description

This function generates balanced treatment incomplete block design for specified parameters.

Usage

btib(v,b,r,r0,k,lambda,lambda0,ntrial=5,pbar=FALSE)

Arguments

v

number of test treatments

b

number of blocks

r

number of replications of test treatments

r0

number of replications of control treatment

k

block size

lambda

number of concurrences among test treatments

lambda0

number of concurrences between test treatments and control treatment

ntrial

number of trials. Default is 5.

pbar

Logical value indicating whether progress bar will be displayed or not. Default is FALSE.

Value

v

number of test treatments

b

number of blocks

r

number of replications of test treatments

r0

number of replications of control treatment

k

block size

lambda

number of concurrences among test treatments

lambda0

number of concurrences between test treatments and control treatment

design

generated block design

N

incidence matrix of the generated block design

NNP

concurrence matrix of the generated design

Aeff

A-efficiency of the generated design

References

Mandal, BN, Gupta, VK and Parsad, R. (2013). Application of optimization techniques for construction of incomplete block designs. Project report, IASRI, New Delhi.

Mandal, B. N., Gupta, V. K., & Parsad, R. (2014). Efficient Incomplete Block Designs Through Linear Integer Programming. American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, 33(2), 110-124.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
btib(4,6,3,6,3,1,3,10)
# }