A class of partial triple systems with applications in survey sampling

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1009-1018

  Colbourn, Charles J ^a   Ling, Alan C H ^b  

^a University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Balanced incomplete block design; Balanced sampling excluding contiguous units; Triple system

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007192710     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929808832141     Document Type: Article

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