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Multivariate analysis of data gathered from generally balanced designs

Nelder (1965a, b, 1968) introduced the notion of general balance for designed experiments and obtained combined-strata treatment effects. This was then generalized by Houtman & Speed (1983) to all univariate block designs for some treatment structure. This thesis extends the theory to multivariate designed experiments, including the estimation of combined-strata treatment effects, and their confidence regions from canonical variate analysis. A wide range of designs types are worked through, with their MANOVA table, and a numerical example given in each case. Using a Monte Carlo simulation for a balanced incomplete block design (BIBD), the combined strata confidence regions are found to significantly outperform those from intra-block information alone

Thesis, Dissertation, English, 1996
1996