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An Experimental Design for Three Factors at Three Levels

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IN an experiment with three factors at three levels each, the experimenter may be willing to sacrifice information on certain components of the two-factor interactions and to ignore the three-factor interactions completely except as an estimate of error1. A possibly useful experimental design for this purpose is detailed below.

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  1. Yates, F., Imp. Bur. Soil Sci., Tech. Comm. No. 35 (1937).

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DE BAUN, R. An Experimental Design for Three Factors at Three Levels. Nature 181, 209–210 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181209a0

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