Unit IV

Missing Plot Technique in RBD

With a single missing value in RBD with t treatments and r replications each , the first step is

to estimate the missing value by using the formula, where X is the estimate
of the missing value, Bi1 is the total of available values in the i th block (with the missing value),
Tj1 is the total of available values in the j th treatment (with the missing value), G 1 is Grand total
of all available values.

The analysis then carried as usual after substituting the estimated value of the missing
observation with the following changes:

1. One degrees of freedom is to be subtracted from the degrees of freedom corresponding to

SSE and Total sum of squares (TSS).
2. Adjusting the treatment sum of squares (SST) by subtracting from it a quantity

Bias= or .
3. For comparing mean of the treatment with a missing value and the mean of any other

treatment, SE(d)= . The SE(d) formula for other comparison will be

the usual one.

Missing Plot technique in LSD

The procedure is to first obtain the estimate of missing value X, by the formula,

where t is the number of treatments

R1 is the total available observations in the row with missing value
C1 is the total available observations in the column with missing value
T1 is the total available observations for the treatment with missing value
G1 is the grand total of all the available observations
 The estimated missing value is then inserted and the analysis is carried out according to the
usual procedure for a LSD except for subtracting 1 degrees of freedom each from the degrees of
freedom for total sum of squares and error sum of squares.
The upward bias in SST is computed by using the formula

upward bias= .
The SE of the difference between the mean of the treatment with missing value and the mean of

any other treatment is given by SE(d)=