Relative Efficiency of a Design A to Design B lecture - 10

 

Relative Efficiency of a Design A to Design B

lecture - 10

A commonly used index for comparing the efficiency of two different designs is the inverse ratio of the variance per unit, i.e., the MSE's. Since different designs may have different degrees of freedom for error, a correction factor, suggested by Fisher, which multiplies the inverse ratio of variances, will give a better measure of the relative efficiency (RE).


Where MSE is the mean square error obtained from design-A with degrees of freedom , and  is the mean square of design-B with degrees of freedom .

 If RE > 1, design A is more efficient.

 If RE < 1, design B is more efficient.

 If RE = 1, design A & design B equally efficient.

Relative Efficiency of RCBD vs. CRD

If a RCB design (say, design-A) is used, one may want to estimate the relative efficiency compared with a CR design (say, design-B). This is possible by using the following equation to estimate the MSE of CRD (MSE B ) from the information obtained in the ANOV of RCBD,


Example: 

The six treatments in each block were randomly assigned to the six plots by drawing random numbers from Appendix Table A-1 in the manner described in Chapter 7. Note in this case that there are only six random numbers (1 - 6) to be drawn for each block, e.g., for block 1 the random sequence was 3, 6, 5, 2, 1, and 4. Assigning treatments A-F to numbers 1-6 results in the block 1 treatment sequence:

 

Block 1

40.9 (C)

40.6 (F)

39.7 (E)

38.8 (B)

31.3 (A)

40.9

 (D)

 

Block 2

33.4 (A)

41.7 (D)

37.5 (B)

41.0 (F)

40.6 (E)

39.3 

(C)

 

Block 3

37.4

(B)

39.5 (C)

39.4 (D)

39.2 (E)

41.5 (F)

29.2

 (A)

 

Block 4

40.1 (D)

38.6 (C)

38.7 (E)

32.2 (A)

41.1 (F)

35.8

 (B)

 

Block 5

39.8 (C)

40.0 (D)

33.9 (A)

38.4 (B)

41.9 (E)

39.8 

(F)


Treatments A-F is levels of nitrogen fertilizer from 0 - 250 lbs/acre in 50 lb increments. The number in parenthesis is the root yield per plot in tons/acre. Test the significance of six treatments and compare the efficiency to CRD.

Solution: 

Proceed the hypothesis testing and compute ANOVA table for RCBD:

Block

A

B

C

D

E

F

Ti.

Ti.^2

1

31.3

38.8

40.9

40.9

39.7

40.6

232.2

 

2

33.4

37.5

39.3

41.7

40.6

41.0

233.4

 

3

29.2

37.4

39.5

39.4

39.2

41.5

226.2

 

4

32.2

35.8

38.6

40.1

38.7

41.1

226.5

 

5

33.9

38.4

39.8

40.0

41.9

39.8

233.8

 

T.j

160

187.9

198

202.1

200.1

204

1152.1

265523.53

T.j^2

 

 

 

 

 

 

222610.83

 



ANOVA Table

SV

df

SS

MS

F

Treatment

5

277.69

55.54

46.28

Block

4

9.44

2.36

1.97

Error

20

24.00

1.20

 

Total

29

331.13

 

 

Now to compute the MSE of CRD from RCBD ANOVA:

It means that RCBD is 11.4 % efficient than CRD for this experiment.

CR Design vs. RCB Design

Let we have “t” treatments and each treatment is replicated “b” times.

ANOVA Table of CRD is given below:

SV

df

SS

MS

F

Treatment

t-1

SST

MST

 

Error

tb - t

SSE

MSE

 

Total

tb - 1

 

 


ANOVA Table of RCBD is given below:

SV

df

SS

MS

F

Treatment

t-1

SST

MST

 

Block

b-1

SSB

MSB

 

Error

(t - 1) (b - 1)

SSE

MSE

 

Total

tb-1

SSTotal

 

 


From both ANOVA Table, it is observed that  and  are the same. But the variability due to block is now in the error term.

RCBD can be a very effective noise-reducing technique if SS block is large.





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