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Bhartiya Krishi Anusandhan Patrika, volume 39 issue 2 (june 2024) : 101-107

On Construction of Doubly Nested Partially Balanced Incomplete Block Designs

Nehatai Wamanrao Agashe1,2, Cini Varghese1, Vinayka1,2, Mohd Harun1,*, Devendra Kumar1
1ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Library Avenue, New Delhi-110 012, India.
2ICAR- Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110 012, India.

  • Submitted09-01-2024|

  • Accepted09-04-2024|

  • First Online 07-06-2024|

  • doi 10.18805/BKAP702

Cite article:- Agashe Wamanrao Nehatai, Varghese Cini, Vinayka, Harun Mohd, Kumar Devendra (2024). On Construction of Doubly Nested Partially Balanced Incomplete Block Designs . Bhartiya Krishi Anusandhan Patrika. 39(2): 101-107. doi: 10.18805/BKAP702.

ABSTRACT

Background: A doubly nested partially balanced incomplete block (DNPBIB) design is defined as an arrangement of v treatments each replicated r times in three systems of blocks if, each block of the first system contains m1 blocks of second system and each block of the second system contains m2 blocks of the third system. Each stage of DNPBIB design, treated independently, is a PBIB design. 

Methods: Three component designs viz., (i) ignoring the first and second system of blocks, a PBIB design with b3 blocks each of size k3 (< v) units with, λ3i concurrences of any pair of treatments which are ith associates of each other, (ii) ignoring first and third system of blocks, another PBIB design with b2 blocks each of size k2(< v) units with λ3i concurrence of two treatments which are ith associates of each other and (iii) ignoring the second and third system of blocks, a third PBIB design with b1 block each of size k1 (< v) units with, λ1i concurrences of two treatments within first associate of each other, are obtained. 

Result: This study provides two new general methods of constructing DNPBIB designs, where the component designs are PBIB designs with two or three associate classes. Group divisible and rectangular association schemes have been used for developing such designs. Methods are illustrated with appropriate examples. 

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