Pairwise balanced designs from finite fields

Discrete Mathematics

Volumn 208-209, Issue , 1999, Pages 103-117

  Buratti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Balanced incomplete block design; Difference family; Pairwise balanced design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007031113     PISSN: 0012365X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-365X(99)00066-7     Document Type: Article

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