Talk:Randomized block design

Example
"engineers at a semiconductor manufacturing facility want to test whether different wafer implant material dosages have a significant effect on resistivity measurements after a diffusion process taking place in a furnace" Is that Really the simplest example that we could of come up with? wouldn't something like pigs on a farm be better?--Hypo Mix (talk) 01:46, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

+1 for this! pigs on a farm, please! 69.229.153.102 (talk) 17:43, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Plagiariasm of NIST
It seems like a lot of DoE articles copied material from the NIST handbook, which has a lot of errors itself. (Before I fixed it, there were similar paragraphs on "computer generated" design in the optimal design article, which were also flawed.) You may wish to warn the Wikipedia Statistics project about the plagiarism issue. Thanks! Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 19:45, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Are you claiming that publications of NIST are not in the public domain? Btyner (talk) 23:57, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Copying or paraphrasing (without giving clear credit) is plagiarism, although I suppose that plagiarizing public-domain documents need not be legally actionable. (Having a NIST-bug at the bottom of the page stating that the article incorporates NIST material is inadequate, imho.) Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 11:06, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * From Plagiarism:
 * "Material from public domain and free sources is welcome on Wikipedia, but such material must be properly attributed. The text may be treated as copyright material in which case attribution should be made in the same way as it is for copyrighted material. But the source can also be copied directly into a Wikipedia article verbatim providing it meets the Wikipedia content policies. If this is done then be sure to cite the source, and attribute the work through the use of an appropriate attribution template, or similar annotation, which is is usually placed in a 'References section' near the bottom of the page."
 * The NIST-PD attribution template conforms to this guideline. Please see Category:United States government attribution templates. Best, Btyner (talk) 23:37, 17 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I stand corrected, and apologize for writing without familiarizing myself with the Wikipedia guidelines, with which this article complies. Thanks for your good humor. Best regards, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 12:31, 18 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, I guess I hadn't internalized the guidelines. Thanks for the discussion. Jerkmonster (talk) 15:36, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Blocking (statistics)
duplicate, the other is more developed Yikkayaya (talk) 22:26, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Agree that they should be merged, but note that Blocking (statistics) is a more general concept, and that Randomized block design is a specific (common) application of this general statistical method. Therefore, suggest a merge in the reverse direction, keeping Randomized block design as a section and simplifying it to avoid duplication. Klbrain (talk) 13:50, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 08:32, 9 January 2018 (UTC)