[R] Balanced Inc. Block Design

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

iwhite at staffmail.ed.ac.uk writes:

> Isn't recovery of interblock information just a matter of treating
> blocks as random, e.g.
> 
> lme(fixed = Y ~ trt,random = ~1|blocks,data=example)
> 
> using lme in package nlme?

It's the right model, certainly.

Various pieces of nice theory might disappear because lme doesn't know
how to utilize the balancedness, though.

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