E-OPTIMAL INCOMPLETE BLOCK DESIGNS FOR CORRELATED ERRORS

Authors

  • Nizam Uddin

Keywords:

E-optimal design, Incomplete block design, Information matrix, Universal optimality.

Abstract

Suffcient conditions are derived for an incomplete block design to be E-optimal
in a subclass of connected designs when within-block observations are correlated
and generalized least squares estimation method is used. Constructions of the
proposed E-optimal designs are given.

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Issue

Vol. 42 No. 2 (2008)

Section

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