Designs for animal experiments under two-way blocking structure in the presence of systematic trend

ARPAN BHOWMIK; ELDHO VARGHESE; SEEMA JAGGI; SUNIL KUMAR YADAV

doi:10.56093/ijans.v88i1.79522

Authors

ARPAN BHOWMIK ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Library Avenue, Pusa, New Delhi –12 India
ELDHO VARGHESE ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Library Avenue, Pusa, New Delhi –12 India
SEEMA JAGGI ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Library Avenue, Pusa, New Delhi –12 India
SUNIL KUMAR YADAV ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Library Avenue, Pusa, New Delhi –12 India

https://doi.org/10.56093/ijans.v88i1.79522

Keywords:

Latin square design, Systematic trend, Trend-free designs, Trend resistance, Two-way blocking

Abstract

Designs under two-way blocking structure are quite useful in animal experiments. Further, in animal experiments, situations are also quite prevalent where there are evidences of systematic trend component influencing the response. These effects are generally neglected but they may have significant impact on the precision of the experiments, if considered. Suitably choosing a design will nullify the effect of such systematic trend. The present article describes the model under two-way blocking structure incorporating systematic trend component. The condition to nullify the effects of trend component when they are present in the experimental material has been obtained and illustrated under a two-way blocking structure. The analytical procedure has been explained through a hypothetical dataset to show the significance of such effects. The results shows that systematic trend component have significant impact on the precision of the experiments and hence will affect the inference.

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