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Dec 15, 2003 - including databases and web servers, and combinatorial, group theoretical .... The concept of External Representation of designs can be best ...

Dec 15, 2003 - denoted Ad. Also let Nd be the v × b treatment/block incidence matrix, let. K be the diagonal matrix ...... element creator { element person. { text } ...

as a flexible criterion that, depending on the application, can offer many choices for ... D(v, b, k) be the class of all possible assignments for given (v, b, k), and use d to ...... small differences in the mean are usually less meaningful than are

biological experiment on the effect of inoculating plants with virus. .... For illustration, consider the following NBIBD with treatments 0; 1; 2;:::; 6 and pa- ...... Cc. (∞ 3 5 | 11 2 10)(8 6 3 | 5 4 11). 12. 12. 12. (0 4 8 | 2 6 10) mod 12; last

A-optimality; α-designs; average efficiency factor; interchange algorithm;. (M,S)-optimality ... variety testing program had unequal block sizes. When each ...

E-optimal incomplete block designs with two distinct block sizes. Nizam Uddin *. Department of Mathematics, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN 38505, USA. Received 25 January 1993; revised 17 August 1995. Abstract. Sufficient conditio

Given v treatments to compare, and having available b blocks ..... Definition 1.3.4 A nearly balanced incomplete block design d ∈ D(v, b, ..... The second system in (1.15) yields the equations x3 ..... that (zdi,edi) = (0, 1) for some i, say i = v.

exists an E-optimal design d* in D(v, bl =- b - bz,bz, kl,k2). Proof. The existence of d* is shown by construction. Let the blocks of the B1BD be. A1,A2 ..... Ab of which A1,A2 ..... Am are disjoint. Without loss of generality, assume that the treatm

2 School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong, ... for v = 20, k = 5 and r = 3 obtained using the design generation package CycDesigN.

Mar 23, 2005 - In addition it is everywhere assumed that the entire variance-covariance matrix Σ for the n × 1 observations vector y is positive definite, i.e..

J. Wang. Department of Mathematics, Suzhou University, Suzhou 215006, P. R. China. Received October 2, 2002; revised March 24, 2003. Abstract: The object of this paper is the construction of incomplete group divisible designs. (IGDDs) with block size

Jul 17, 2006 - The authors are in the process of developing a web-based design theory ..... for designs having given properties, and a statistical application ...

submissions to our design database. The first official release of the External Representation with documentation has appeared [9]. This will be described below.

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diflerences corresponding to bi and b: respectively. Then there exists a BIBRC ( v , b, r, p, q, A ) design with b = mu, r = mpq, p, q and A. ProoJ: Define m initial p x ...

Incomplete block designs with nested rows and columns are designs for v treatments in b blocks of size k =pq

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http://www.siam.org/journals/sidma/23-2/70607.html. †CNRS ... We denote by ˙C the set of nodes vi, such that vi is the tail of ai−1 and also the tail of ai, 1 ≤ i ≤ p ...

fractional semilinear differential equations with non local conditions. Using a ... the functions f,g and h are continuous, and the non local condition g(x) = p. ∑ k=1.