Constructions of efficiency-balanced designs

We present a number of methods of constructing efficiency-balanced binary block designs which are design patterns for simplification of statistical analysis. Furthermore, a method of construction of an efficiency-balanced block design with v+1 treatments from one with v treatments is generally characterized.     

The efficiency and optimality characterization of certain six-Treatment incomplete-Block designs emanating from some quasi-Semi-Latin squares

Incomplete-block designs were constructed from three types of three-factor block-structured combinatorial designs which are not necessarily semi-Latin squares but whose treatments are ab initio arranged as in the semi-Latin square. The basic consideration for the construction involves the exploitation of the different block structures of the experimental units of the Quasi-semi-Latin Squares (QSLS) for the same treatments. All the emanating designs are found to be connected, only the designs in nine blocks are both variance- and efficiency-balanced and offer gain in efficiency but lead to about 46 percent loss of information.