THE BLOCKING STRUCTURE

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The 180 lambs were made up of 90 pairs of twins. We would expect the variation between pairs to be different from that between the lambs in a pair. The pasture and ewe diet treatments are assessed by comparing pairs, while the dosing compares lambs within a pair.

This experimental structure is termed the blocking, and must be specified in the analysis. In this case there is a single block factor :

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