Development of some useful generators to obtain partially neighbor balanced designs

Abstract

Neighbor balanced designs are robust to neighbor effects, therefore, these designs are used to balance out the neighbor effects. If a large number of experimental material is required for combinatorial neighbor balance then partially neighbor balanced designs should be recommended. In this study, some useful generators are developed to obtain the partially neighbor balanced designs in linear blocks of sizes 3–7. Keywords: Linear block, Neighbor effects, Neighbor balanced designs, Partially neighbor balanced designs