ICAR-IASRI News Letter April-June 2006

Abstract

In the study on “Some investigations on design and analysis of agro-forestry experiments”, the concept of strongly neighbour balanced designs has been defined and some methods of constructing complete block designs for two factors have been obtained. Some series of incomplete block designs balanced for adjacent tree effects have also been obtained. These designs are shown to be partially variance balanced for direct effects. Another study is on “Statistical and algorithmic approach for improved estimation of treatment effects in repeated measurements designs(RMDs)”. Designs in which each experimental unit receives some or all of the treatments, one at a time, over a period of time are called repeated measurements designs (RMDs). A class of reference balanced RMDs for estimating direct effects of formulations useful for bioequivalence trials has been obtained using Williams Square RMDs