title: Analysis of data from incomplete block designs.
abstract: This paper presents an organized solution to the problem of computing inter- and intrablock analyses of incomplete block designs, based on the modified maximum likelihood principle proposed by Patterson and Thompson (1971, Biometrika 58, 545-554). The calculations are set out to be easily programmed on a microcomputer. The method is attractive because it is simple, yet sufficiently general to handle a wide class of designs, including partially balanced incomplete block designs, designs with unequal block sizes, designs with missing values, and generally unbalanced split-plot experiments.
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D001699:Biometry; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012107:Research Design; D012984:Software