Nearly Balanced Incomplete Block Designs.

Abstract

A class of nearly balanced incomplete block designs is defined. This extends the concept of regular graph designs of John and Mitchell (1977) to the unequally replicated case. Some necessary conditions on the existence of such designs are derived. Methods of construction are given for some special cases. For five or six varieties, the 'best' nearly balanced incomplete block designs and their efficiencies are tabulated. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA079726

Entities

People

  • Chien-fu Wu
  • Ching-shui Cheng

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Construction
  • Efficiency
  • Inequalities
  • Integrals
  • Mathematics
  • Military Research
  • North Carolina
  • Probability
  • Sequences
  • Statistics
  • United States
  • Universities
  • Wisconsin

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • Systems Analysis and Design