Read the section on Blocking Designs (pages 185-190) in Julian Faraway's Practical Regression and ANOVA using R (2002). This treatment of the topic is very concise and to the point, and gives the R ...

In a randomized complete block design (RCBD), each level of a "treatment" appears once in each block, and each block contains all the treatments. The order of treatments is randomized separately for ...

For a randomized complete block design with additive block effects, an asymptotically distribution-free simultaneous confidence region of pairwise treatment differences is presented. The corresponding ...

A concept of model-robustness is defined in terms of the performance of the design in the presence of model violations. The robustness problem is discussed for several randomization procedures ...