DOI: 10.15415/mjis.2016.42014
Characterization of Group Divisible Designs JYOTI SHARMA1, JAGDISH PRASAD2 AND D. K. GHOSH3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Banasthali University, Rajasthan Co-ordinator of Amity School of Applied Sciences,Amity University, Rajasthan, Jaipur 1 2
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Department of Statistics, Saurashtra University, Rajkot
Email: sharmajyoti09@gmail.com Received: October 25, 2015| Revised: February 08, 2016| Accepted: February 25, 2016 Published online: March 30, 2016 The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at www.chitkara.edu.in/publications
Abstract In this paper, some inequalities of PBIB designs has been given. In this paper, the characterization of all the three types of GD designs, by finding some equalities and inequalities among the parameters of GD designs is obtained.
Keywords: Association Scheme; Group Divisible designs. 1. INTRODUCTION Bose and Nair (1939) introduced a class of binary, equi-replicate and proper designs, which we called PBIBD with m-associate classes. Various authors like Bose and Shimamoto (1952), Nair and Rao (1942), discussed various properties, method of construction and applications of PBIB designs. Bose and Shimamoto (1952) classified the PBIBD design of two-associate classes each of size k (k < v). Nair and Rao (1942) modified the original definition of PBIB designs. Further, Bose and Shimamoto (1952) classified the known PBIB designs with two-associate classes into following: (i) Group Divisible (GD), (ii) Simple (S.I), (iii) Triangular (T), (iv) Latin Square Type (Li), (v) Cyclic Designs. Clatworthy (1973), extensively tabulated GD designs. Since then Freeman (1976), Kageyama (1985a, 1985b), Bhagwandas (1985), Dey and Nigam (1985), have reported several methods of constructing GD designs. A group divisible design is an arrangement of v(=mn) treatments into b blocks such that each block contains k(<v) distinct treatments which are partitioned into m(≥ 2) groups of n(≥2) treatments each, further any two distinct treatments occurring together in λ1 blocks if they belong to the same group, and in λ2 blocks if they belong to different groups. Bose and Connor
Mathematical Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences Vol. 4, No. 2, March 2016 pp. 161–175