The existence of uniform 5-GDDs

Journal of Combinatorial Designs

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 275-299

  Yin, Jianxing ^a   Ling, Alan C H ^b   Colbourn, Charles J ^b,d   Abel, R J R ^c  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d University of Vermont   (United States)

Author keywords

Group divisible design; Pairwise balanced design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007128730     PISSN: 10638539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6610(1997)5:4<275::AID-JCD4>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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