Perfect Mendelsohn designs with block size six

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 287-319

  Abel, R J R ^a   Bennett, F E ^b   Zhang, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced incomplete block designs; Group divisible designs; Holey perfect Mendelsohn designs; Perfect Mendelsohn designs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007024929     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(99)00114-7     Document Type: Article

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