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This paper generalizes certain results which are known for balanced incomplete block designs and group divisible designs to partially balanced incomplete block (PBIB) designs with m associate classes. Some of the results are for general m but others are for $m =$ 2, 3, or 4.
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Connor et al. (1954) studied this question.
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