This function generates a balanced treatment incomplete block design for specified parameters.
btib(v,b,r,r0,k,lambda,lambda0,ntrial=5,pbar=FALSE)
number of test treatments
number of blocks
number of replications of test treatments
number of replications of the control treatment
block size
number of concurrences among test treatments
number of concurrences between test treatments and the control treatment
generated block design
treatment by block incidence matrix of the generated block design
concurrence matrix of the generated design
A-efficiency of the generated design
number of test treatments
number of blocks
number of replications of test treatments
number of replications of the control treatment
block size
number of concurrences among test treatments
number of concurrences between test treatments and the control treatment
number of trials. Default is 5.
Logical value indicating whether progress bar will be displayed or not. Default is FALSE.
B N Mandal <mandal.stat@gmail.com>
Mandal, B. N., Gupta, V. K. and Parsad, R. (2013). Application of optimization techniques for construction of incomplete block designs. Project report, IASRI, New Delhi.
Mandal, B. N., Gupta, V. K., & Parsad, R. (2014). Balanced treatment incomplete block designs through integer programming, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 46:8, 3728-3737.