Abstract
It is shown that the efficiency factor of a design is $r$ times the harmonic mean of the latent roots of the reduced intrablock normal equations exclusing the root which is always zero.
Citation
Oscar Kempthorne. "The Efficiency Factor of an Incomplete Block Design." Ann. Math. Statist. 27 (3) 846 - 849, September, 1956. https://doi.org/10.1214/aoms/1177728193
Information
Published: September, 1956
First available in Project Euclid: 28 April 2007
zbMATH: 0072.36702
MathSciNet: MR88141
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/aoms/1177728193
Rights: Copyright © 1956 Institute of Mathematical Statistics