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The purpose of block division is to increase the precision of the comparisons by elimination of differences, while replication is also useful in securing the same object by diminishing the experimental error. Finally the analysis of variance gives a convenient and valid method of extracting the information of the results. As Wishart had pointed out, the Fisherian technique was something in the nature of a revolution. The ever present error is related to the response variable y.