Building and Optimizing Randomized Complete Block Designs using SAS

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In the animal sciences, the design that is used the most is the Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD). This design can be compared to the stratified-randomized design often used in the life sciences. Its ingenuity lies in using the design of an experiment to include variance in order to exclude variance. That is correct. We include variance in our design to make sure we can control it, so when the time comes to analyze the data we can exclude …

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