Robustness of General Efficiency Balanced Block Designs   against Missing Observations

Moumita Paul; Snigdha Roy; Merlin J. Mariya; Anurup Majumder

doi:10.56093/jisas.v78i02.171348

Authors

Moumita Paul Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia
Snigdha Roy Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia
Merlin J. Mariya Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia
Anurup Majumder Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia

https://doi.org/10.56093/jisas.v78i02.171348

Keywords:

GEB designs; Conditions for robustness; Connected designs and Efficiency of a block design.

Abstract

In the present communication, some results on robustness of generalized efficiency balanced (GEB) block designs with equal block sizes (binary and non-binary) are presented. The necessary & sufficient conditions are obtained for robustness as per criteria 1 (Ghosh, 1982) when the missing observations appear in the following patterns: (i) t (≥1) observations of a design pertaining to the same treatment are missing and (ii) all observations in a block are missing but the residual design still becomes connected. Sufficient conditions for robustness according to Criteria 1 are examined in each type of GEB designs. Another criterion (Criteria 2) for robustness of a block design is the small amount loss of efficiency values of the residual design after deletion of t (≥1) observations. The declining trend of efficiency values after deletion of treatments one by one are presented graphically for measuring the robustness of designs under study.

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