The Efficiency of Blocking: How to Use MS(Blocks)/MS(Error) Correctly

Authors
Lentner, Marvin Arnold, Jesse C. Hinkelmann, Klaus
Citation
Lentner, Marvin et al., The Efficiency of Blocking: How to Use MS(Blocks)/MS(Error) Correctly, American statistician , 43(2), 1989, pp. 106-108
Journal title
American statistician → ACNP
ISSN journal
00031305
Volume
43
Issue
2
Year of publication
1989
Pages
106 - 108
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
Even though there are no valid tests of block effects in randomized complete block and Latin square experiments, it is noted that a commonly used measure of efficiency is monotonically related to the F ratios used inappropriately for testing the effectiveness of blocking.Because of this relationship one can give beginning students a useful interpretation of otherwise inappropriate F statistics without introducing concepts of relative efficiency.