Read the section on Blocking Designs (pages 185-190) in Julian Faraway's Practical Regression and ANOVA using R (2002). This treatment of the topic is very concise and to the point, and gives the R ...
In a randomized complete block design (RCBD), each level of a "treatment" appears once in each block, and each block contains all the treatments. The order of treatments is randomized separately for ...
We have already seen that varying two factors simultaneously provides an effective experimental design for exploring the main (average) effects and interactions of the factors 1. However, in practice, ...