General construction of efficient circular partially strongly-balanced repeated measurements designs.

Residual effects in repeated measurements design (RMDs) leads to wrong estimation of direct treatment effects. Minimal strongly balanced RMDs are preferred to balance out the residual effects. The partially strongly balanced designs form an important family of RMDs which provide designs where minimal strongly balanced RMDs do not exist. In this article, a general construction of efficieint circular partially strongly-balanced RMDs is given in periods of k different sizes which produces these designs in periods of equal sizes, two different sizes, three different sizes, ..., by putting k = 1, 2, 3, ..., respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]