Trend resistant balanced bipartite block designs.

Balanced Bipartite Block (BBPB) designs resistant against the trend are used when the interest of the experimenter is in making comparisons between two sets of treatments that are disjoint, and there is the presence of systematic trend within a block. This paper deals with the bipartite block model incorporating trend component. The general methodology has been described related to BBPB designs incorporating trend effect. The conditions for a BBPB design to be trend resistant are also obtained. Further, methods of constructing trend resistant BBPB designs are discussed. The designs so obtained are trend resistant and are more efficient for estimating the contrasts pertaining to two treatments from different sets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]