Book 654

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the design of split-plot and blocked experiments, two types of experiments that are extremely popular in practice. The optimal design approach advocated in the book will help applied statisticians from industry, medicine, agriculture, chemistry and many other fields of study in setting up tailor-made experiments. This is illustrated by a number of examples. The book also contains a theoretical background, a thorough review of the recent work in the area of split-block and blocked experiments, and a number of provocative theoretical results (some new to this volume).