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 ...

While the analysis of variance test statistic F in a balanced incomplete block design without randomization is a constant under the Fisher model, i.e., a linear model without technical errors, and it ...

A random error component is introduced into linear models for analyzing data from designed experiments. This error component is called a `restriction error' because ...