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Construction of Polygonal Designs Using the Method of Addition

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Bibi, Aisha

Program

PhD

Institute

University of Peshawar

City

Peshawar

Province

KPK

Country

Pakistan

Thesis Completing Year

2016

Thesis Completion Status

Completed

Subject

Statistics

Language

English

Link

http://prr.hec.gov.pk/jspui/bitstream/123456789/10396/1/Aisha_bibi_statistics_2016_Univ_of_Peshawar_24.06.2016.pdf

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2021-02-17 19:49:13

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2024-03-24 20:25:49

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1676725786640

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When sampling from ecological, environmental and geographical regions, it is observed that there is a spatial pattern among the units of population. The units that are close to each other are more similar than the units that are far apart. In this situation a simple random sample from a population where neighboring units are contiguous, is not the best representative of the population; so we cannot obtain best estimates of the population parameters. Polygonal designs are the special type of partially balanced incomplete block designs, developed under the idea that neighboring units should be avoided in the selection of samples. Polygonal designs are extensively used in survey sampling in terms of balanced sampling plans excluding contiguous units (BSEC) and balanced sampling plans to avoid the selection of adjacent units (BSA). In partially balanced incomplete block designs we do not consider the distance among the neighboring units where as in polygonal designs we consider it. Polygonal designs are usually denoted by PD (v, k, λ; α), where v denotes the number of treatments, k denotes the block size, λ is the concurrence parameter and α denotes the distance. In this thesis there is an introduction of block designs, especially Balanced Incomplete Block Designs (BIBDs), Partially Balanced Incomplete Block Designs (PBIBDs), Regular Graph Designs (RGD). As polygonal designs are basically a generalization of PBIBD and is related to RGD, it is necessary to include an introduction of these block designs in the thesis. Polygonal designs in term of Partially Balanced Incomplete Block Designs (PBIBDs), Balanced Sampling plans Excluding Contiguous units (BSECs) and Balanced Sampling plans to avoid the selection of Adjacent units (BSAs) are also discussed. Also, there is a detailed discussion of the existence of polygonal designs with linear blocks (PDL). A brief review of existing work on cyclic polygonal designs is presented. Also, examples of the said designs along with their concurrence vectors and concurrence matrices are given, which show the difference between the structure of the polygonal designs and the other block designs. The method of addition is introduced for the construction of all types of cyclic block designs and cyclic incomplete block designs; also the construction of these designs is illustrated through examples. This method is cyclic in nature. The method of addition is a more detailed and easy method of construction as compared to the other existing methods. One can directly find the properties of the designs from the set of x''s. Many authors have investigated polygonal designs with circular blocks. They attempted to establish the existence of polygonal designs as well as to find polygonal designs for different combination of parameters. But their work is limited. They provided designs for circular blocks only. Unfortunately there is no work on the construction of polygonal designs with linear blocks. In this thesis, cyclic polygonal design with linear blocks are introduced for the first time. Polygonal designs comprised of linear blocks are defined and explained. A detailed discussion of necessary conditions of the existence and construction of polygonal designs with linear blocks is presented. A large number of cyclic polygonal designs with linear blocks are constructed. Besides considering linear blocks, efforts are made to construct circular polygonal designs for block size 4 up to 10. Algorithms are developed for the construction of these types of designs. Although researchers have found designs for different combination of parameters, their work is limited to distance 1, and only a few designs were found for α > 1 and k > 4. There is a summary of work presented at the end of thesis. Limitations in the construction of designs are mentioned. Some suggestions for future directions in the construction of cyclic polygonal designs and polygonal designs with linear blocks are also furnished.
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مکمل نام: محمد یونس
قلمی نام: یونس ؔفریدی
تخلص: یونس ؔ
پیدائش:
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شروع شروع میں ان کا نام’’محمد اصغر‘‘ رکھا گیا اور بلدیہ میں بھی اسی نام کا اندراج کروایا گیا۔ بعد میں سرداراں بی بی (پھوپھی) نے نام محمد یونس رکھا جو آج تک ان کی پہچان کا باعث ہے اور اسی نام سے پکارے جاتے ہیں۔(۱)
پھر بعد میں حضرت بابا فرید الدین مسعود گنج شکر رحمتہ اللہ علیہ کے ساتھ دلی عقیدت اور نسبت کے باعث نام کے ساتھ ’’فریدی‘‘ لکھنا شروع کیا۔یونسؔ فریدی اس بارے میں کہتے ہیں:
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