Construction of General Minimum Lower-Order Confounding Split-Plot Designs with Few Whole Plot Factors
Split-plot designs have important application in industrial experiments.The general mini-mum lower-order confounding(GMC)criterion is one of the criteria for selecting the optimal split-plot designs.The optimal split-plot designs under the GMC criterion are called GMC split-plot designs.So far computer aided search is the only method for constructing GMC split-plot designs.However,the method is too time-consuming.In this paper,a theoretical method is proposed to construct GMC split-plot designs with few whole plot factors.A class of GMC split-plot designs can be easily obtained with the new method.
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