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AN ALGORITHM FOR CONSTRUCTING OPTIMAL RESOLVABLE ROW-COLUMN DESIGNS |
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| Authors: | Nam-Ky Nguyen ER Williams |
| Institution: | CSIRO-IAPP Biometrics Unit and CSIRO Division of Forestry |
| Abstract: | This paper describes an effective algorithm for constructing optimal or near-optimal resolvable row-column designs (RCDs) with up to 100 treatments. The performance of this algorithm is assessed against 20 2-replicate resolvable RCDs of Patterson & Robinson (1989) and 17 resolvable RCDs based on generalized cyclic designs (GCDs) of Ipinyomi & John (1985). The use of the algorithm to construct RCDs with contiguous replicates is discussed. |
| Keywords: | α-designs contiguous replicates generalized cyclic designs incomplete block designs interchange algorithm iterative improvement (M S)-optimality resolvability row-column designs simulated annealing |