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 ...

In many experimental situations, a response surface design is divided into several blocks to control an extraneous source of variation. The traditional approach in most response surface applications ...

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 ...