RANDOMIZED

BLOCK DESIGNS
MUKILAN - 22D232
SHALINI - 22D242
SRINITHI - 22D245
VISHAL BABU -22D255
WILLIAM JAMES - 22D257
DEEPA - 22D258
 INTRODUCTION
RANDOMIZED- BLOCK
●
DESIGN
The estimate of chance variation (the experimental error) can often be
reduced that is, freed of variability due to extraneous caused by dividing
the observations in each classification into blocks.
● This is accomplished block brown sources of variability (tha is extraneous
variables) are fixed in each block but vary from block to block.
● We shall suppose that the experimenter has available measurements the
pertaining to a treatments distribution over b blocks.
● First, we shall consider the case where there is exactly one distribution
from each treatment in each block.
● This case would arise if each laboratory tested one disk from each stripe.
● Letting, Y ij denote the observation pertaining to the ith treatment and the
jth block, y
EXERCISE 12.20
A laboratory technician measures the breaking strength of each of 5
kinds of linen thread by means of 4 different instruments and obtains the
following results. Measuring Instrument
I1 I2 I3 I4
Thread 1 20.6 20.7 20.0 21.4

Thread 2 24.7 26.5 27.1 24.3

Thread 3 25.2 23.4 21.6 23.9

Thread 4 24.5 21.5 23.6 25.2

Thread 5 19.3 21.5 22.2 20.6

Looking at the threads as treatments and the instruments as blocks,
perform an analysis of variance at the level of significance 0.01
MINITAB IMPLEMENTATION:
MINITAB IMPLEMENTATION:
 An industrial engineer tests 4 different shop-floor layouts by having ea
ch of 6 work crews construct a subassembly and measuring the constr
uction times (minutes) as foll
ows:

Test at the 0.01 level of significance whether the 4 floors layouts produce
different assembly times and whether some of the work crews are consistently
faster in constructing this subassembly than the others.
 LAYOUT 1 LAYOUT 2 LAYOUT 3 LAYOUT 4 T.i
CREW A 48.2 53.1 51.2 58.6 211.1

CREW B 49.5 52.9 50.0 60.1 212.5

CREW C 50.7 56.8 49.9 62.4 219.8

CREW D 48.6 50.6 47.5 57.5 204.2

CREW E 47.1 56.8 49.1 55.3 203.3

CREW F 52.4 50.6 53.5 61.7 224.8

Tj. 296.5 322.4 301.2 355.6 T.. =1275.7

SOURCE OF DEGREES OF SUMS OF MEAN
VARIANCE FREEDOM SQUARES SQUARES F

CREW 5 89.997 17.999 4.55

LAYOUT 3 362.364 120.788 5.41

ERROR 15 20.397 1.359

TOTAL 23 472.759
CONCLUSION :
Four different, though supposedly equivalent, forms of a standardized reading
achievement test were given to each of 5 students, and the following are the
scores which they obtained:

Student 01 Student 02 Student 03 Student 04 Student 05

Form A 75 73 59 69 84

Form B 83 72 56 70 92

Form C 86 61 53 72 88

Form D 73 67 62 79 95

Treating students as blocks, perform an analysis of variance to test at the level

of significance 0.01 whether it is reasonable to treat the 4 forms as equivalent
Concern about the running temperature of a computer chip prompted the investigation of 4 different types of
cooling fans. Five different computers were available and each type of cooling fan was tried in each computer.
Given the observations on temperature, coded by subtracting the smallest value obtain the sums of squares and
degrees of freedom for each component and construct the analysis of variance table and test for differences
among the treatments and blocks using Level of significance as 0.05
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Resources
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR ENGINEERS - Richard A. Johnson
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/randomized-block-designrbd-and-randomized
-complete-block-designrcbd/
https://youtu.be/UUDT3YcNu8Q?si=9qVpJOLBAZiLTXsM