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Randomized Complete Block Design - Research

The document describes a randomized complete block design (RCBD) experimental method. In an RCBD, experimental units are grouped into blocks that are as uniform as possible. Treatments are then randomly assigned to the experimental units within each block. This controls for variability between blocks while still allowing comparisons between treatments. The key advantages of an RCBD are that it provides more accurate results than a completely randomized design by reducing variability between blocks.

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Randomized Complete Block Design - Research

The document describes a randomized complete block design (RCBD) experimental method. In an RCBD, experimental units are grouped into blocks that are as uniform as possible. Treatments are then randomly assigned to the experimental units within each block. This controls for variability between blocks while still allowing comparisons between treatments. The key advantages of an RCBD are that it provides more accurate results than a completely randomized design by reducing variability between blocks.

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RANDOMZED COMPLETE BLOCK

DESGN
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1essioa Mae 1 Cuadro
Paula Beatrioe M 1oya
Uannah 1oyoe N Piol
Arianne 1oy L de Mesa
DESCRPTON OF THE DESGN
Probably the most used and useful of the
experimental designs.
1akes advantage of grouping similar experimental
units into blooks or replioates.
1he blooks of experimental units should be as
uniform as possible.
1he purpose of grouping experimental units is to
have the units in a blook as uniform as possible so
that the observed differenoes between treatments
will be largely due to true" differenoes between
treatments
PURPOSE OF RCBD
#CBU is done so that the units in the blook are
as uniform as possible so that the observed
differenoes in the treatments will be due to
generally true" differenoes in all treatments.
ADVANTAGES OF THE RCBD
1. 0enerally more preoise than the C#U.
2. No restriotion on the number of treatments or replioates.
3. 3ome treatments may be replioated more times than others.
4. Missing plots are easily estimated.
5. whole treatments or entire replioates may be deleted from the
analysis.
6. Complete flexibility. Can have any number of treatments and blooks.
7. Provides more aoourate results than the oompletely randomized
design due to grouping.
8. #elatively easy statistioal analysis even with missing data.
9. Allows oaloulation of unbiased error for speoifio treatments.
10. lf experimental error is heterogeneous, valid oomparisons oan still
be made.
DSADVANTAGES OF THE RCBD
1. Lrror /1 is smaller than that for the C#U (problem with a
small number of treatments).
2. lf there is a large variation between experimental units within
a blook, a large error term may result (this may be due to too
many treatments).
3. lf there are missing data, a #CBU experiment may be less
effioient than a C#U
4. Not suitable for large numbers of treatments beoause blooks
beoome too large.
5. Not suitable when oomplete blook oontains oonsiderable
variability.
6. lnteraotions between blook and treatment effeots inorease
error
HEN TO USE RCBD
when there is only a small
number of treatments
when there is a need to oontrol
the varianoe in an experiment
PRNCPLE OF RANDOMZATON
#andomization Prooedure
Laoh replioate is randomized separately.
Laoh treatment has the same probability of being assigned to a given
experimental
unit within a replioate.
Laoh treatment must appear at least onoe per replioate.
Lxample
0iven four fertilizer rates applied to 'Amidon' wheat and three replioates of
eaoh treatment.
#ep 1 #ep2 #ep3
A B A
U A B
C U C
B C U
PRNCPLE OF LOCAL CONTROL
STATSTCS N RCBD
ANOVA TABLE LAYOUT (TO-AY
ANNOVA)
-USED N RCBD AS A STATSTCAL LAYOUT
Source of
variation
Degrees
of
freedom
a
Sums of
squares
(SSQ)
Mean
square (MS)
F
Blocks () b-1 SSQ

SSQ

/(b-1) MS

/MS

Treatments
(%7)
t-1 SSQ
%7
SSQ
%7
/(t-1) MS
%7
/MS

Error () (t-1)*(b-1) SSQ

SSQ

/((t-1)*(b-1))
Total (%49) t*b-1 SSQ
%49
a
where tnumber oI treatments and bnumber oI blocks or replications.
COMPARSON BETEEN RCBDAND
CRD
SAMPLNG TECHNQUE
#andomized 3ampling 1eohnique
#andomized sampling teohnique is applied in
randomized oomplete blook design beoause
the units found in the experiment are both
unsystematio and unbiased.
LNEAR MODELS N RCBD
SAMPLE OF THE DESGN
< treatments
<replioation or blook
EXAMPLE:
lf we wanted to aoknowledge the potential effeot of height of the oage on the
ooagulation time, we should organize the experiment using a randomized oomplete
blook design. 0ne diet of eaoh type will be used on eaoh of the 4 shelves. 1he
randomization prooedure would assign a number 1-16 to eaoh of the rabbits. Put four
slips of marked either 1, 2, 3, or 4 in a bowl. 3eleot a number at random 1-16 to seleot
a rabbit for Uiet A, and pull a number out of the bowl to seleot a position on the top row.
#epeat three times without replaoement for Uiets B, C, and U to oomplete the
assignment to the top row. lollow the same prooedure to assign the other three rows.
An example is shown below.
REFERENCES:
1. http://www.ndsu.edu/ndsu/horsley/#CBU.pdf
2. http://web.uot.ao.za/depts/stats/Biolnformati
os#esouroes/arveymd/Biometry222/biomet
ry150/ohapter2.pdf

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