| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Prologue | p. 1 |
| Outline of the Book | p. 3 |
| Analysis and Properties of Block Designs | p. 6 |
| Introduction | p. 6 |
| Intra-block Analysis | p. 7 |
| Balancing in Block Designs | p. 18 |
| Recovery of Inter-block Information | p. 26 |
| Efficiency Factor | p. 38 |
| Exercises | p. 42 |
| Balanced Designs | p. 45 |
| Introduction | p. 45 |
| Some Properties of BIB Designs | p. 45 |
| Analysis of BIB Designs | p. 56 |
| Construction and Existence of BIB Designs | p. 60 |
| BIB Designs Through Finite Geometries | p. 60 |
| Method of Differences | p. 65 |
| Some Other Constructions | p. 74 |
| Existence of BIB Designs | p. 76 |
| Some Generalizations of BIB designs | p. 77 |
| Construction of Variance- and Efficiency-balanced Designs | p. 80 |
| Nested BIB Designs | p. 83 |
| Exercises | p. 87 |
| Partially Balanced Designs | p. 91 |
| Introduction | p. 91 |
| Introducing PBIB Designs | p. 92 |
| The Algebra of Association Matrices | p. 94 |
| PBIB Designs with Two Associate Classes | p. 97 |
| Group-divisible Designs | p. 98 |
| Triangular Designs | p. 104 |
| Latin Square Type Designs | p. 108 |
| PBIB Designs Based on Partial Geometries | p. 110 |
| Cyclic Designs with Two-associate Classes | p. 111 |
| PBIB Designs with More Than Two Classes | p. 114 |
| Rectangular Designs | p. 114 |
| Generalized Right-angular Designs | p. 115 |
| Designs Based on Factorial Association Schemes | p. 116 |
| Designs Based on Group-divisible Family of Schemes | p. 117 |
| The m-dimensional Triangular Designs | p. 117 |
| Kronecker Product Designs | p. 118 |
| Analysis of PBIB Designs | p. 119 |
| Lattice Designs | p. 122 |
| Cyclic Designs | p. 125 |
| Linked Block Designs | p. 129 |
| C-Designs | p. 130 |
| Alpha Designs | p. 133 |
| Exercises | p. 135 |
| More Incomplete Block Designs | p. 138 |
| Introduction | p. 138 |
| Designs for Factorial Experiments | p. 139 |
| Designs for Parallel Line Assays | p. 148 |
| Introducing Bioassays | p. 148 |
| Contrasts for Parallel Line Assays | p. 149 |
| Block Designs for Parallel Line Assays | p. 154 |
| Designs for Test-Control Comparisons | p. 165 |
| Designs for Diallel Crosses | p. 171 |
| Robust Incomplete Block Designs | p. 177 |
| Robustness Against an Outlier | p. 177 |
| Robustness Against Missing Data | p. 179 |
| Trend-free Designs | p. 183 |
| Exercises | p. 185 |
| Optimality Aspects of Block Designs | p. 187 |
| Introduction | p. 187 |
| Optimality Criteria | p. 188 |
| Optimality of Proper Block Designs | p. 197 |
| Optimality of Symmetric Designs | p. 197 |
| Optimality of Asymmetric Designs | p. 200 |
| D-optimality of Some Incomplete Block Designs | p. 208 |
| Optimal Designs for Test-Control Comparisons | p. 212 |
| Optimal Designs for Parallel Line assays | p. 219 |
| Optimal Designs for Diallel Crosses | p. 223 |
| Exercises | p. 227 |
| Appendix | p. 229 |
| Some Results in Linear Algebra | p. 229 |
| Some Aspects of Linear Models | p. 232 |
| Finite Fields | p. 236 |
| Finite Geometries | p. 240 |
| References | p. 243 |
| Index | p. 277 |
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