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The robustness of block designs against missing observations is revisited. It has been shown that A-efficiency criterion is not an appropriate measure to judge the efficiency of the residual design. As an alternate to this, E-efficiency criterion is defined. A lower bound of this criterion for the loss of any t observations in binary variance balanced block design is obtained. Balanced incomplete block designs (BIBD) that are robust as per E-efficiency criterion are identified.
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Bhar, L. Robustness of Variance Balanced Block Designs. Sankhya B 76, 305–316 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13571-013-0073-4
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