Balanced Incomplete Block Design/Examples/Arbitrary Example 1

Example of Balanced Incomplete Block Design

Let there be $4$ treatments $A, B, C, D$.

Let there be $6$ blocks of $2$ units each.

Then we can arrange the $4$ treatments into the $6$ blocks as:

$AB, AC, AD, BC, BD, CD$

Sources

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): balanced incomplete block design
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): balanced incomplete block design