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Course Notes - Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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Important designs• Completely r<strong>and</strong>omised designExperimental units allocated to treatment groups r<strong>and</strong>omly.- No restriction on the allocations apart from the numbers ineach group.- Each possible allocation has the same probability <strong>of</strong> beingselected.• R<strong>and</strong>omised block designR<strong>and</strong>om allocation <strong>of</strong> treatments within blocks <strong>of</strong> similar subjects.- Reduces unexplained error by removing between-block variationBlock what you can, r<strong>and</strong>omize what you cannot.Repeated measures• Individuals can act as their own blocks• Each individual receives each treatment, usually in a differentorder- Effect <strong>of</strong> lactate buffers on time to exhaustion at 20kmh- Each subject received each <strong>of</strong> the 4 treatments in r<strong>and</strong>omorder.• Paired t-test special case <strong>of</strong> analysis when just two treatments(eg, treatment <strong>and</strong> control)- Need special care where the order <strong>of</strong> treatment matters (e.g.,learning)23

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